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    Early stage of an AFB?

    Update: I was today looking at them, and my conclusion is that it is an afb, 99% sure. I uncaped some cells, and found serval cells with coffe brown slime inside. Now i will try to inform the beekeeping asociation in my city and see what they will do. We are not obligated by law to report any...
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    Early stage of an AFB?

    Hi comrades, Is this on pictures, early phase of an american foulbrood??? Smells like cheap chocolate with scent of chinese plastic (weird to me too, but the smell is mix those scents). Stretches only 3-5 mm. The gui mass in cells is more on the liquid side. I found only two cells on different...
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    Suspicion of the foulbrood in dead hive

    Yes, i found dead bees head-first in cells, i knew already that bees died from starvation becuase weather changed from warm to cold in march (there were only handfull of bees in hive) and bees couldnt move to get food becuse they are keeping brood from cold. Three weeks from death of all bees in...
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    Suspicion of the foulbrood in dead hive

    Hi, thanks for the reply, i will sterilise the woodwork, and destroy comb, as you suggested to be sure that is safe to use it with other bees, becuase i dont know for sure it is foulbrood. Here in Bosnia we dont have bee disease officers i think, we have beekeeping associations that act when...
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    Suspicion of the foulbrood in dead hive

    Thanks, mybe better question is, does capped larva rot during time, when the bees are dead? Becuase i think that mybe the brood is just rotted and decomposing, as a result of bees being dead for about three weeks or more, can this be true?
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    Suspicion of the foulbrood in dead hive

    Hi all, im from Bosnia, this is my first post here. Im beginer in beekeeping, this is my second year of beekiping i have three bee hives, but in the march one of them died, i think becuase the number of the bees was small so when the weather changed from warm to cold they died, they had food...
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