From: "Helmut E. Garz" <hommes@olympus.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:38:10 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Killing AFB spores

Hi Chris
No, I did not check at the first discovery. Light conditions not favorable. Yesterday I inspected the affected combs more closely. The whole thing was
sealed off from bees finding the stuff. Yes I found one cell what looks like
scale but from top to bottom. Still nothing down in the lower area in
others. BUT I was able to identify positively AFB. Backtracking on more
info from several years back, the smell Can have different manifestations.
In this case it is dirty socks. Burned the whole comb and frame arrangement.
Torched the box. I am forced to treat the adjacent colonies with Terramycin
to save them. I will dust them. I have the rest of the affected identified
colony in quarantine. Got to learn all over because I was without AFB for 5
years. This apiary is very isolated and the infection probably by drifting
from my buddy's next to mine because he discovered afb in his own backyard 10 miles or so away from this farm. Anything is possible, I noted
different race of bees harvesting the same lavender field.
Helmut