From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:27:52 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: How do you tell diseases apart

Chris wrote"
> You will have to ask my wife about PMS.

Reply:
Good then Chris, can you ask her concerning the Parasitic Mite Syndrome
symptoms many of us have confused with AFB and EFB and which more closely
resembles Para foul, how she deals with it in the colonies she maintains
with you?

> EFB used to be treated the same way but not
> now and light infestations can be treated with antibiotic by the Ministry.
> The incidence is now rising and was over 1000 cases last year.

Reply:
Really Chris! This increase happened here also with the advent of varroa
mites with whole apiaries and outfits rancid with it and crashing in later
stages. Since you can only burn so much and then you stop, and seeing this
has now happened in your area, what antibiotic is the Ministry treating
with? Has any resistance surfaced yet to the antibiotics, as has happened
over here i.e. Terramycin?

Regards,

Dee A. Lusby