mazzamazda
Field Bee
- Joined
- Feb 16, 2010
- Messages
- 620
- Reaction score
- 61
- Location
- Porto, Portugal
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 200
One for Finman really, I have AFB again on a hive with double brood, a really strong hive. I think I have made a mistake using Tylosine. I went yesterday to treat, after checking 150 or so hives, I was tired. I took all the sealed brood frames out with around 30 punctured cells for the whole hive. I reduced it to single brood, left the frames which were still open brood and some open honey stores. I treated the top of the frames with icing sugar and tylosine mix. I now think I should have changed ALL the frames for new?
Problem is its a terrible year for honey here and the hive is 80 kms away so its difficult to feed.
Also a very strange situation happened, I took my wife round the hives last week, I was just explaining how we should look at the front of the hives to check for strong/weak hives, check strong ones first etc. The first hive we checked which was the strongest, opened crownboard, she said whats that smell, I said its AFB, took out one frame, it was the oldest frame so I know it to look at, the only one. Anyway I had a look, perforated cells, brown slime behind it AFB. Closed the hive. Yesterday I went back, smell gone, took out the very same frame, No perforated cells, checked every frame in the top, no AFB, only AFB cells in the bottom box, which I didnt check last time. I thought once a cell is infected thats it?
Everyday is a school day.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Problem is its a terrible year for honey here and the hive is 80 kms away so its difficult to feed.
Also a very strange situation happened, I took my wife round the hives last week, I was just explaining how we should look at the front of the hives to check for strong/weak hives, check strong ones first etc. The first hive we checked which was the strongest, opened crownboard, she said whats that smell, I said its AFB, took out one frame, it was the oldest frame so I know it to look at, the only one. Anyway I had a look, perforated cells, brown slime behind it AFB. Closed the hive. Yesterday I went back, smell gone, took out the very same frame, No perforated cells, checked every frame in the top, no AFB, only AFB cells in the bottom box, which I didnt check last time. I thought once a cell is infected thats it?
Everyday is a school day.
Any thoughts or suggestions?