On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:50 AM, randy oliver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As usual, there is a crash of philosophy vs practicality here.
>
> In summary, from a purely practical standpoint, I find that close
> inspection of colonies each year, coupled with an aggressive program to
> burn any colonies with AFB (generally saving the bees with "shake and
> bake"), with spot treatment of adjacent colonies when I find a case, keeps
> AFB to a very low level in my operation.

As always we end up with IPM as the way to follow !
but that implies investing on the essential asset: we The Beekeepers.
with philosophies far and beyond beekeeping practices.

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