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Have you examined a sample of about ten older bees guts under a microscope?

Amitraz.

Or...Nosema Ceranae.

Have seen it many times over the years, can easily be mistaken for EFB at first glance, difference is generally the larvae are of different ages and not all as contorted as with EFB.

Sodium bicarbonate.

You been drinking the bees lolly water? /waves/

Kitta, Randy Oliver did some tests, think he called it the accelerated mite drop of monitoring using powdered sugar, this is not the actual article, but I have read the updated version a while back, somewhere in his archive...

Welcome, Jamie. Pete.

Any day now in this area, always much later here compared to up north.

Be okay for a few days, just smear a tiny bit of water on the cage mesh with your finger, don't regularly spray them with water...can result in killing them.

Mica particles being blown into the honey.

It does, a lot of them are still made from what goes around a tree cavity.

Don't think there have been any court cases, maybe a different member.

Don't think he has had that problem before... or EFB.

Depends where you buy from, anything from £75 up to a £100.

Also use one, it does not kill everything like when burning sulfur, very safe for plants and many other larger insects in the greenhouse, it works much the same as just dusting with sulfur, but easier. Description below. http://www.hotboxworld.com/products/hotbox-sulfume/8/cat

There are also claims that thymol treatments such apiguard, api-life var clear up CB, but thymol syrup sprayed onto the bees/combs is more effective. There has been research done. Commun Agric Appl Biol Sci. 2005;70(4):601-11. A novel approach for the management of the chalkbrood disease...

Thymol can be quite effective for treating/clearing up chalk brood, but it is not a permanent fix.

No, as the incompetent one you paid to remove them has taken their queen away.

...the answer is in post two.