I'm wondering if there are any look alikes for AFB scale? I was just working through a dead out and my first reaction was a frame covered in scale as many cell bottoms had a dark covering, but upon closer examination I'm not so sure. The reasons I'm not sure are:
- In some cells it only covers smaller portions of the bottom;
- The scale material appears on the area between cells and other portions of the frame where eggs or larvae would not have been;
- It is a dark color, but kind of propolized look to it;
- It is in some new frame where I think only honey or pollen was stored.
I think it may be remains of wet pollen stores which would explain it being kind of all over, but I'm not sure....
I'll try to get pics that do the situation justice.
Thanks for any thoughts!
- In some cells it only covers smaller portions of the bottom;
- The scale material appears on the area between cells and other portions of the frame where eggs or larvae would not have been;
- It is a dark color, but kind of propolized look to it;
- It is in some new frame where I think only honey or pollen was stored.
I think it may be remains of wet pollen stores which would explain it being kind of all over, but I'm not sure....
I'll try to get pics that do the situation justice.
Thanks for any thoughts!