Aaron Morris wrote:

> So, how to get off the TM treadmill.  Well, one way is to go cold turkey and
> be prepared to burn baby, burn!  More preferable would be shake it baby,
> shake it!  You'll be off the treadmill and you'll have renewed frames.

Aaron, not sure what you mean here, since you will still have to burn
the frames. My guess is you mean that you will start fresh with new frames.

The procedure is to shake the bees onto new frames and foundation in a
new hive. You destroy the old frames. (You can harvest the honey for
your own consumption, and if you can segregate the wax, use it for your
own candles, but I would not.) You can salvage the hive bodies by
controlled burning of the inside of the box. (The "chimney fire" method
is spectacular.) But the frames are lost.

There are ways (ETOH(?) gas  and radiation) to sterilize the frames and
boxes but few states have the facilities and they are really only good
for those who have lots of infected equipment, such as commercial
operations.


Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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