EFB and culling

[Prof]

Thank you, for some reason I'd started thinking both foulbroods were spore formers. I appreciate the correction.

We are all learning and I have found that this is a really good forum for getting sound information.

 

[Skinfaxi]

So to the wise ones i ask.
Are efb bacteria spores similar to mould or mushroom spores. Do they travel and spread the similar way. How long and how much spores are given off.
How tough are they.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Does the Bee Farmers group have insurance if you intend to run my few collonies as part of my land based business.

they don't do BDI, only the BBKA do, but you won't get to join the BFA with just a handful of hives. If you don't want the Local BKA nonsense, you can always just join the BBKA as an individual member and pay the BDI that way

 

[Wilco]

So to the wise ones i ask.
Are efb bacteria spores similar to mould or mushroom spores. Do they travel and spread the similar way. How long and how much spores are given off.
How tough are they.

See post above from @Prof, EFB does not form spores.

Bacterial spores, for those species which produce them (such as EFB), can travel on the wind but usually it's about surviving adverse conditions. They are heat and cold resistant, can survive dessication, various chemicals.

 

[Skinfaxi]

they don't do BDI, only the BBKA do, but you won't get to join the BFA with just a handful of hives. If you don't want the Local BKA nonsense, you can always just join the BBKA as an individual member and pay the BDI that way

Thank for that. Will consider it.

 

[Prof]

Thank for that. Will consider it.

One AFB bacterium produces one spore and may be between 10 million and 1000 million per ml of liquid (you will not have a ml in each cell of your comb but it adds up when you allow for all the frames). Chemically very different from fungal/nosema spores etc. and very tough to destroy.

 

[Boston Bees]

Well, I didn't know what a bacterial spore really was, so I googled it. This video puts it quite simply and well

Bacterial Spore Formation Animation Video - YouTube

 

[Prof]

Well, I didn't know what a bacterial spore really was, so I googled it. This video puts it quite simply and well

Bacterial Spore Formation Animation Video - YouTube

Good description

 

[Finman]

Good description

That spore formation was new to me.