From: randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
>......this is exactly what I'm doing today (treating the entire
yard for AFB) in the yard in which I found the AFB deadout. The suggestion by another to simply remove single diseased combs is a recipe, IMHO, for disaster.
I've heard Mike Palmer talk (and post) about the Dadant wax rendering operation...the on site apiary developed AFB resistance when they accepted comb with scale....this resistance disappeared when they stopped accepting comb with scale.
Mike Bush quotes Richard Taylor (quoting another beekeeeper) that his cure for AFB is to combine the diseased colony with the strongest colony in the yard.
I've seen a small amount AFB scale in Dee's operation...anything bad goes into the truck (with all the other equipment) and wax is eventually rendered for foundation, anything with less than 6 cells of scale is left in the field. AFB is well below 1% in her operation.
I recommend people NOT use these practices in general...but the fact that these practices work suggests to me that something is wrong and out of balance if the vast majority of beekeepers today find it necessary to either treat or burn affected (and adjacent) equipment.
The prime suspects (in my mind) for being out of balance is: genetics, microflora, nutrition, and exposure to man made or man enhanced toxins (from organophosphates to essential oils).
deknow
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