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kalium
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diagnosis of brood disease?
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March 08, 2014, 09:47:59 am »
Hi,
I have a new hive that is quite weak, and I see them bringing out mummies everynow and then. I put some links up to pictures of the brood
http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,43665.msg377968.html#msg377968
Any experienced eyes feel they could diagnose it? No foul smells and no stringiness from the cells.
Thanks
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edward
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March 08, 2014, 10:33:44 am »
Chalk brood
not enough pollen starving larvae
Not enough bees and chiled brood
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kalium
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Re: diagnosis of brood disease?
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March 10, 2014, 02:50:53 am »
Quote from: edward on March 08, 2014, 10:33:44 am
Chalk brood
not enough pollen starving larvae
Not enough bees and chiled brood
Thanks Edward. Taking what I hope are the appropriate measures
* Moving to 5 frame nuc
* Protein cakes
* Re-queening (once I see how the first two go)
Cheers.
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Vance G
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May 16, 2014, 05:00:18 pm »
This year I had one colony out of 15 in the same conditions with only one exhibiting a lot of chalkbrood. I gotta vote for requeening when that happens even though the heat of summer will normally end the outbreak.
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