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<blockquote data-quote="Glynn Cleaver" data-source="post: 4039" data-attributes="member: 387"><p>Canterbury has the unenviable title of the highest AFB counts for the country. I don't know if I have a answer but there's been a huge number of new beeks pop up. Both hobby and small startups. A few years ago there was a commercial beek with a very bad AFB issue. There's been knock on affects since then they had yards all over the place pluss they where selling nucs to new beeks ect. There's been a other operations with large AFB issues as well since then.</p><p>Now I believe some of the problems stem from inexperienced bees finding dead hives with mites and missing AFB infected cells and calling it pms splitting hives and removing one of the splits to a new yard. The other one is taking the honey supers off even honey from the brood nest of a AFB hive but when that hive is found the supers are in a shed already contaminated. Another is hobby farming that have hives that "die of the cold each winter but don't worry a swarm will fix that no worries " the next is the broken beek with unregistered sites no money to waste on doing the rounds ect. The last I hope is not happening yet but I believe will.</p><p>That was my 2c</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glynn Cleaver, post: 4039, member: 387"] Canterbury has the unenviable title of the highest AFB counts for the country. I don't know if I have a answer but there's been a huge number of new beeks pop up. Both hobby and small startups. A few years ago there was a commercial beek with a very bad AFB issue. There's been knock on affects since then they had yards all over the place pluss they where selling nucs to new beeks ect. There's been a other operations with large AFB issues as well since then. Now I believe some of the problems stem from inexperienced bees finding dead hives with mites and missing AFB infected cells and calling it pms splitting hives and removing one of the splits to a new yard. The other one is taking the honey supers off even honey from the brood nest of a AFB hive but when that hive is found the supers are in a shed already contaminated. Another is hobby farming that have hives that "die of the cold each winter but don't worry a swarm will fix that no worries " the next is the broken beek with unregistered sites no money to waste on doing the rounds ect. The last I hope is not happening yet but I believe will. That was my 2c [/QUOTE]
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