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Anonymous:
Finally found time to do a hive inspection and had a more experianced bee keeper and club member along.
  Light colored hive, Queen les sand no sign one has even bee there. capped cells has chocolate colored runny stuff in them but don't stink. Might be American fowl brood. May have bomb fire weine roast soon.

Dark hive, brood and eggs present although no queen seen, Super sidure queen cell present at the top of one frame. Cells has odd cap have white thich runny milky looking stuff in them.

Over all bee yard is too shady had to move the dark hive to a sunnier location. Left the light one til a postive ID can be made on the runny cell content. Still queen less never the less.

Bees in the tree have moved to a new tree higher off the ground, Drat I was ging to box them soon.

Finally good new, Fellow club member is giving me a swarm he captured. I have foundation it install in frames before the transfer into brand new equipment.

Cross your fingers and toes it isn't fowl brood, please.

 :D Al

Robo:
Al,

Doesn't sound like AFB.

Do you see any sunken caps on dead brood?  Any dried up scale like brood?  If you stir the contents of a cell with a match, is it stringy when you pull the match out?

These are all signs of FB

Beth Kirkley:
Al, that all sounds awful. I'm so sorry. Makes my stomach sick to think about the possible loss. I sure hope it doesn't turn out too bad. You have tried so hard to get your bee yard going to have all this happen.

Wish you well with it,
Beth

mattoleriver:
Al,
I hope everything works out okay in your hives, AFB would be real PITY.  If you could see me now you would see that my fingers are crossed---actually my hands are so swollen (bare handed swarm collection yesterday) I can't cross my fingers!    
Here is one of my favorite sites when I really want to put myself into full blown worry mode.  MAAREC  Scroll down to the Powerpoint and slides section for pictures of your favorite diseases.
George

Agility Mom:
Al- You deserve a better break than you have gotten. Those bees haven't learned to appreciate what they have with you.  I strongly hope that you don't have AFB. So glad that the fellow beekeeper can help you out.

Judy

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