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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 13412" data-attributes="member: 30">if i remember correctly ap2's take samples of those hives and they get tested. the other strange thing here is " he believed the majority of the cases to be sacbrood, which is not infrequent in their organic hives." which simply indicates an ongoing varroa problem. afb hides quite well behind varroa issues.the other important factor here is due to their size, its not him inspecting the hives, its his staff. that may well be lack of staff or poorly trained staff. he can only go by what they say.he can be the best beekeeper in the world and it won't make any difference because its not him doing the work.this whole situation is the same old thing that we have seen before. moneys tight, therefore its not afb its sacbrood. they have shortcut the beekeeping and spread it through their gear and their poor attitudes means they will never get on top of it."“You put the boxes on to hives, you then cheek the hives for clinical disease, the bees put honey in them and, if you find clinical disease, you then burn the hive. We have followed that plan. So yes, those boxes would have gone on to living hives. Those hives, there is no spread. The only way they can spread AFB is if the hive dies with AFB. The boxes are not spreading it.”" this really highlights the failure of understanding and why they will never ever get on top of it.</blockquote>

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