From: "Allen Dick" <allend@internode.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 14:06:26 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: cell size measurement

> Now on Chaulk, it was first found in 1971, in Nebraska and Wyoming in 1971.
> This was believed to be the first published record of its occurrence in
> honeyt bees in the USA

I remember being a bee inspector in the '70s and participating in the
provincial chalkbrood survey. I traveled (with my crew) around the province
documenting the spread of CB. The belief at the time was that it had been
imported from down under, since it had never been seen here before.

It is a bad disease and costs us a lot of money annually. Some bees are
much more bothered by it than others. Some seem immune.

Strangely the most affected are strains we have imported from Auz.

allen