>One word more from Denmark but not from the speaker who is on the Buckfast
>breeding program. I am sure he also told taht it has been forbidden for many
>years to use medications of bees in Denamrk. So no use of Terramycin and
>Fumidil and foulbrood is rather rare in Denmark. All because an hygienic
>management of beekeeping. Remember that old brood combs are dunghills. Not
>everybody change their brood combs every year but for sure a brood comb removed
>from a hive does not go back into any hive even if it has been used by the
>queen only once.
Perhaps it is time we adopted some of these points here in Nth America. I
have been saying for some years that we could do more in the selection of
bees with natural immunity to the common diseases. But I suppose Varroa and
T-mite have overshadowed the other problems!!!
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