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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 5184" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>Having cleaned up innumerable AFB infected outfits over the years that my father kept buying I have to say that infected gear is the norm rather than the exception. I am not 100% sure how legislation could be worded mainly because I'm not 100% sure what John F's new technology can achieve. Obviously any test would have to be considerably cheaper than the value of the gear being sold but you would think that if you could do a composite test on say 20 or 30 pieces of gear and it came back strongly positive then a match would be a good idea and letting some new beekeeper buy it a bad one. As for old bee gear use for designer gardens et cetera then if they prove clean there is no problem but propolis is a known source of AFB and also old boxes often attract swarms which can lead to-------.</p><p>If someone has a heap of dead hives and no live ones, I have to think now we have the new technology that it would be fair enough for them to have to get it tested.</p><p>On irradiation of boxes, apparently it works amazingly but I do recall a case of somebody in Auckland doing a trial run on AFB and for some reason it didn't work which led to a big burn up. Not sure why it didn't work and apparently when it does work when you put bees onto that gear they are really healthy for several years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 5184, member: 207"] Having cleaned up innumerable AFB infected outfits over the years that my father kept buying I have to say that infected gear is the norm rather than the exception. I am not 100% sure how legislation could be worded mainly because I'm not 100% sure what John F's new technology can achieve. Obviously any test would have to be considerably cheaper than the value of the gear being sold but you would think that if you could do a composite test on say 20 or 30 pieces of gear and it came back strongly positive then a match would be a good idea and letting some new beekeeper buy it a bad one. As for old bee gear use for designer gardens et cetera then if they prove clean there is no problem but propolis is a known source of AFB and also old boxes often attract swarms which can lead to-------. If someone has a heap of dead hives and no live ones, I have to think now we have the new technology that it would be fair enough for them to have to get it tested. On irradiation of boxes, apparently it works amazingly but I do recall a case of somebody in Auckland doing a trial run on AFB and for some reason it didn't work which led to a big burn up. Not sure why it didn't work and apparently when it does work when you put bees onto that gear they are really healthy for several years. [/QUOTE]
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