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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 13421" data-attributes="member: 207">Definitely a stress thing and quite possibly  related to chilling coupled with rapid brood expansion in the spring. Definitely worse some years than others and generally clears up by itself. There may be some genetic predisposition to this problem and I have seen cases that only cleared up after requeening.I have seen hives quite debilitated with sack brood but it is quite rare and you have to wonder whether the sack brood caused the problem or whether another problem caused the sack brood.If you have never seen this problem in your hives then you're probably not looking hard enough. It is a lot more common than AFB and has very similar symptoms. You can of course have both in the same hive , it's rare but I have seen it.If I only find the odd cell then I just ignore it. As others have said, it will go away by itself.</blockquote>

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