>  Also bleach dosen't destroy American Foulbrood spores, personial
expericence has showed me that you will be wasting your time if that was
your intention. A good scorching will be better if the frames were
exposed to  A.F.
 
Frankly any of these actions are a waste of time and hard on the
equipment.  They do keep the beekeeper busy and out of trouble for the
time it takes, though.  And it appeals strongly to those who have a need
to do *something*, no matter how futile and wasteful of time and
resources.  It's much like sacrificing virgins to ensure the year's corn
crop: of doubtful value, but impossible to debunk to the believers.
 
There is a lot of detailed discussion on this in the logs, so I won't go
into it here.  I will allow this much though: in an area where no drugs
are permitted, scorching of the boxes may have *some* value.
 
However I suspect that the usefulness of these efforts is mostly
psychological.
 
Allen
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