In message <[log in to unmask]>, Stan Sandler <[log in to unmask]> writes > This would seem to me >to be a pretty basic question that someone must have looked at. I wish to add a question about the greater wax moth. Is there a known mechanism for the *adults* to take EFB from one colony to another? I have not had a satisfactory answer to this one having read on dee lusby's site a paper which refers to the larvae having the bacteria in their faeces. I can only presume this is likely even though they aren't supposed to defecate: in/on their eggs - body surface? -- James Kilty