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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 12103" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Also, some hives just have a natural immunity. I recall a case where I rented some hives to another commercial beekeeper. At seasons end I picked the hives up and returned them to my own site. The beekeeper told me they were all inspected for AFB, so (foolishly), I did not re inspect them.</p><p></p><p>Come first spring inspection, there was a dead one. I checked it and my heart sank, it was rotten with AFB, plus had been robbed. The hive next to it was touching it, and a steady stream of bees from that hive were walking in and out of the other hive, cleaning up the last of the honey and no doubt walking all over the AFB. So I checked that hive, but no AFB.</p><p></p><p>I mulled over whether I should burn it anyway, but decided no, I wanted to see what would happen. As the dead hive had been robbed I was expecting other hives to come down with AFB also, so put the whole site into quarantine and it stayed in quarantine 3 years. Over that time several other hives did come down with AFB, but the hive that had been walking in and out of the AFB deadout never got AFB. It was eventually taken out of quarantine but I left it marked so I could keep a special eye on it, and to this day it has stayed AFB free.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 12103, member: 13"] Also, some hives just have a natural immunity. I recall a case where I rented some hives to another commercial beekeeper. At seasons end I picked the hives up and returned them to my own site. The beekeeper told me they were all inspected for AFB, so (foolishly), I did not re inspect them. Come first spring inspection, there was a dead one. I checked it and my heart sank, it was rotten with AFB, plus had been robbed. The hive next to it was touching it, and a steady stream of bees from that hive were walking in and out of the other hive, cleaning up the last of the honey and no doubt walking all over the AFB. So I checked that hive, but no AFB. I mulled over whether I should burn it anyway, but decided no, I wanted to see what would happen. As the dead hive had been robbed I was expecting other hives to come down with AFB also, so put the whole site into quarantine and it stayed in quarantine 3 years. Over that time several other hives did come down with AFB, but the hive that had been walking in and out of the AFB deadout never got AFB. It was eventually taken out of quarantine but I left it marked so I could keep a special eye on it, and to this day it has stayed AFB free. [/QUOTE]
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