This is a part of a message I posted recently to the Montgomery County
(Maryland) Beekeepers Association email list describing my having to kill
hives because of AFB:


>Maryland procedures mandate the destroying of the bees in AFB infected
>hives.  I did research and satisfied myself that killing the hives was the
>only solution.
>
>On Sept 5 the apiary inspector and I met in the late afternoon when most
>of the bees had returned to the hive.  We did the hives one by one.  We
>taped a garbage bag to the front opening of the hive and sealed up any
>holes.  He sprayed Resmethrin, a pyrethroid it takes a license to use,  on
>the top bars of the hive from a spray can.  After about 20 minutes most of
>the bees were dead and had come out of the hive into the garbage bag.  The
>rest were in a mass on the bottom board.  We took off the upper boxes and
>pushed the ones on the bottom board into the garbage bag and sealed up the
>hive with duct tape so no bees could get in.  He squashed the clump of
>latecoming bees that had gathered above the entrance.
>
>He pointed out that the wax moths had already started attacking the upper
>dry frames, so the next day I put PDB in each of the hives.  If I had it
>that evening  I could have put it in then.

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