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AFB

  • 25-07-2014 05:23PM
    #1
    SC Kevin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭


    Hey everyone,

    There has been a confirmed case of AFB in East Cork (Ladysbridge near Castlemartyr), it has been dealt with but will ye please keep a very close eye on your hives when doing an inspection next.

    Thanks

    Here is the comb that was sent to Dr. Mary Coffey for analysis

    10533725_823076604369746_4511178214451813465_n_zps292b7900.jpg


Comments

  • #2
    Oldtree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    What are the symptoms and are they in the above photo?


  • #3
    SC Kevin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭SC Kevin


    Oldtree wrote: »
    What are the symptoms and are they in the above photo?

    The spotty brood pattern for one but also the sunken "wet" looking cell would be another.

    10533725_823076604369746_4511178214451813465_n_zpsc0b4f92a.jpg

    After seeing these symptoms, your next test would be the matchstick test, where you put a match stick in to a cell to check it

    10511093_1439370033005427_4847787411054995394_n_zpsb5a5aa3a.jpg

    If you then see this, then you have AFB but i would still send off a sample. After which, the hive and all its occupants/frames etc everything will have to be burned


  • #4
    Native Honey Bee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Native Honey Bee


    Oldtree wrote: »
    What are the symptoms and are they in the above photo?

    The best way to recognise a diseased frame is to be very familiar with what a healthy one looks like, banal but true. What SC Kevin has said is accurate and if you look closely at the photos you will notice also some sunken cappings - not yet discoloured and cappings nibbled by the bees. These if seen on a frame need to be investigated forthwith, cappings sink when the larvae inside dies. If a frame with empty cells is held by the lugs with the bottom bar away from one, it will be possible to see the lower cell walls and any scales/detritus sent there by gravity, white spots are caused by varroa. The red circle on the right intersects a cell containing something that looks like chalk, it is chalkbrood.


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