Text only | Text with Images

Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum

BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: papabear on October 20, 2009, 09:38:58 AM

Title: I think i have AFB. How to tell?
Post by: papabear on October 20, 2009, 09:38:58 AM
Went in to remove some supers for winter and i can smell something different. i checked the capped brood with a stick some were stringy most were not. is it afb or efb?
Title: Re: I think i have AFB. How to tell?
Post by: fish_stix on October 20, 2009, 11:38:52 AM
If the brood is a nasty brown looking mess and strings out like snot with the stick test then it's probably AFB. It smells like rotting animal matter which is exactly what it is! I've never seen EFB so can't help with that diagnosis. Do a search!
Title: Re: I think i have AFB. How to tell?
Post by: TwT on October 20, 2009, 12:08:47 PM
go to this site and pick the topic you want and it will tell you about almost anything.

http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/pest&disease/pppdIndex.html
Title: Re: I think i have AFB. How to tell?
Post by: papabear on October 21, 2009, 12:21:30 PM
do i burn everything or just the  frames?
Title: Re: I think i have AFB. How to tell?
Post by: AR Beekeeper on October 21, 2009, 02:22:32 PM
It depends on what is legal in your state.  Here we are required to kill the bees, burn bees and the comb and scorch the inside of the hive bodies with a blow torch.
Title: Re: I think i have AFB. How to tell?
Post by: danno on October 22, 2009, 08:44:34 AM
Quote from: TwT on October 20, 2009, 12:08:47 PM
go to this site and pick the topic you want and it will tell you about almost anything.

http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/pest&disease/pppdIndex.html

Thanks for the link.   Nice site
Text only | Text with Images