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Not blaming the beekeeper (I don't know), but in that particular case I would really like to know how it happened. I am a beginner beekeeper, and I know many be
by palata 2y ago
Not blaming the beekeeper (I don't know), but in that particular case I would really like to know how it happened. I am a beginner beekeeper, and I know many beekeeper who have had AFB in one hive without having to kill the entire apiary. And 10 000 hives means many apiaries (I assume?).
Could it be that the beekeeper took too long to react and let all their colonies get infected? That surely takes some time.
- fnordpiglet 2y agoI think they hint at the answer in the article. They mix and match stuff between the different hives during operations so it’s assumed to be infected everywhere within a single operation plus they detect it at a time that you can’t attribute it to a single hive. Maybe the cost of testing each individual hive is too great and the cross contamination issues too likely to have hives infected but not yet observable via tests?