From: "Nancy M McKenna" <nancy.mckenna@home.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:46:45 -0500
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: shakedown

So, Dee, a shakedown is when you make a new hive, basically, by sweeping all
the bees from an infected hive into new undrawn frames - just as if you have
a new pkg of bees and a brand new hive?

And in starting from "scratch" these bees digest all "bad" honey already in
them including noxious spores that cause these various foulbrood?

Now, old books suggest one then burn old frames & hive bodies. Is this still
called for, or is putting into solar melter enough? In other words, how
drastic do you have to get? I presume that all larvae and from the "old"
hive is to be destroyed one way or another. Honey going to human use rather
than feeding back to any bees.

nancy