On 12-Nov-08, at 4:59 AM, Chris Slade wrote:

>
> So you had corpses upon which to perform post mortems.  Was this   
> done?


Hi Chris and all

The Ontario Beekeepers Association Tech Transfer team, commonly  
called the Bee Girls, found  N Apis and N Cerana fairly widespread  
throughout the province.  Their recommendations included fumagillin  
treatments of all hives and acetic acid fumigation of deadout combs  
and boxes before reuse. Dr Ernesto Gusman, of the OBA and U of  
Guelph, recently encouraged our local group, Dufferin Beekeepers  
Assoc,  to fumigate all brood combs including those of live  
overwintered hives as acetic gets the spores whereas fumagillin does  
not.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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