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<blockquote data-quote="nikki watts" data-source="post: 1677" data-attributes="member: 53"><p>thanks tristan </p><p>yes i agree, we haven’t been as careful as we could have been about things like hive tool hygiene. we do practice site quarantine and I very rarely swap brood between hives and never from apiary to apiary (usually its only swapped around a pallet) unless it’s a split which is marked back to the parent hive. however most of our sites are pretty close together and there would be 100’s of hives within the flight area of this site. </p><p></p><p>its actually was a little scary and a wake up call how easily it could have been missed if i didn’t open up several cells with holes in the capping on the first frame i looked at and had just rushed on with the harvest without a proper check. With the number of infected cells i believe the hive would have died out pretty quickly. </p><p></p><p>There was only one cell that had the pupal tongue and i found that after culling the hive and going over each frame really closely, it was a dark and dried pupae in dark comb... i must have missed it when putting the honey boxes on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nikki watts, post: 1677, member: 53"] thanks tristan yes i agree, we haven’t been as careful as we could have been about things like hive tool hygiene. we do practice site quarantine and I very rarely swap brood between hives and never from apiary to apiary (usually its only swapped around a pallet) unless it’s a split which is marked back to the parent hive. however most of our sites are pretty close together and there would be 100’s of hives within the flight area of this site. its actually was a little scary and a wake up call how easily it could have been missed if i didn’t open up several cells with holes in the capping on the first frame i looked at and had just rushed on with the harvest without a proper check. With the number of infected cells i believe the hive would have died out pretty quickly. There was only one cell that had the pupal tongue and i found that after culling the hive and going over each frame really closely, it was a dark and dried pupae in dark comb... i must have missed it when putting the honey boxes on. [/QUOTE]
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