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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 11749" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>When you burn AFB hives you have to do so in a hole so that you can cover it up. This is very important because especially if there is a lot of honey on the hive you will never get a complete burn and you will be left with a lot of infected honey in the hole.Disposing of hives in deep holes at permanent landfill sites should in theory be at least as good if not better than the current system. Whatever method is used you still have to make sure that the infected material is not accessible to bees either before or after the destruction.</p><p>I hear on the news that there are about 250,000 less hives in New Zealand than there were two years ago which I guess means that there are about 1 million boxes of frames kicking around they will need to be dealt with. A percentage of this gear will be infected and most of the rest will be of uncertain origins especially in a few years . Using someone else's old gear from the back of a shed is one of the surest ways to pick up disease that I know. I wonder if anybody has any plans for those million boxes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 11749, member: 207"] When you burn AFB hives you have to do so in a hole so that you can cover it up. This is very important because especially if there is a lot of honey on the hive you will never get a complete burn and you will be left with a lot of infected honey in the hole.Disposing of hives in deep holes at permanent landfill sites should in theory be at least as good if not better than the current system. Whatever method is used you still have to make sure that the infected material is not accessible to bees either before or after the destruction. I hear on the news that there are about 250,000 less hives in New Zealand than there were two years ago which I guess means that there are about 1 million boxes of frames kicking around they will need to be dealt with. A percentage of this gear will be infected and most of the rest will be of uncertain origins especially in a few years . Using someone else's old gear from the back of a shed is one of the surest ways to pick up disease that I know. I wonder if anybody has any plans for those million boxes. [/QUOTE]
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