In a message dated 28/10/2008 02:50:07 GMT Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:
Better to treat
piecemeal and change the queen and try again for a better bee.
I remember, probably 20 years or more ago, Roger Morse telling me that he
had colonies to which he couldn't give AFB!
Incidentally I was standing behind the cameraman when the photo of the AFB
roping was taken that appears in Hooper and Morse's Encyclopedia of Beekeeping.
My only claim to fame!
Chris
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