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Date: | Wed, 27 Oct 2021 04:34:57 -0400 |
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>If they are serious, have they read the papers that document how many spores are needed to infect a single brood cell, and worked out how much infected honey would need to be found, foraged, and all somehow fed to only one specific larvae?
I haven't read any papers except Celia F Davis's book, The Honey Bee Around and About. In that book she says that a larva up to 24 hours need only 10 spores or fewer to become infected with AFB, but older larvae need millions. She says low levels of the bacterium might not affect a colony - but even so, if a few very young larvae (or even one very young larva) became infected with AFB, mightn't that perhaps cause problems to a colony?
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