In Arkansas, our bee inspectors are great folks to deal with. My hives were tested by APHIS, see picture. Zero Nosema in my apiary, with about 186 bees tested. I did not know zero this was possible.
Regarding AFB comments:
I try to keep track of African bees. The source is Arizona: with a large apiary that tested 83% African genetics which is maintained and queens shipped to many states due to advertising of Varroa tolerant bees. The apiary does not inform the public of the AFB heritage. Of course there are spin offs of bees, swarms, from innocent beeks that purchase bees/queens from this particular apiary that has spread to Florida and California to Nebraska and Arkansas, my state.
The Arizona AHB apiary owners have been warned by state inspectors which the apiary cried harassment and gained National attention; claiming we honest beekeepers being picked on by the state. National news media picked up on the news, conducted onsite inspection and saw first hand the real AFB bees that inflicted about 100 stings in the reporters protective gloves. To many stings to count. Without protection the reporters would have been stung to death. I saw the video myself of the reporters gloves and read the comments of the reporters that question the safety.
What is unbelievable is the apiary formed alliance with 100s of well intended but uniformed beeks supporting the AFB apiary. At least one supporter is prominent to this day.
The original AFB owners in Arizona, a husband and wife team is not so national this day. The husband has passed, sadly and I lost track of his crazy wife who made insane statements about honeybees that are repeated to this day. There biggest message: don?t treat for varroa, buy our bees, they are natural survival stock.., without mentioning AFB of 83%. So now there is AFB traces in most states.