>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!!! **************************************************** * David Eyre 9 Progress Drive, Unit 2, * * The Beeworks, Orillia, Ontario, L3V 6H1. * * [log in to unmask] 705-326-7171 * * http://www.muskoka.net/~beeworks * * Agents for: E H Thorne & B J Sherriff UK. * ****************************************************