With the new honey bee vaccine blowing around in the news lately, and scientists Barking up the wrong Bee, I feel that I should share with you how I treat my beehives to prevent American Foulbrood. If you haven’t read my reaction to the honey bee vaccine, please do so. I would love to know…
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A Vaccine for Honey bees? Is it sweet or sour?
Did you know that if a bee inspector finds American Foulbrood (AFB) in a beekeepers beehives, the beekeeper has to BURN the affected colonies? With FIRE! Yup, boxes, bees, honey, all of it goes up in flames. That is the current most effective method of eradicating AFB. Foulbrood is a spore that pretty much destroys…