Subject: American foulbrood

From: [email-masked] (Hugo Veerkamp)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 11:31:01 GMT

hi Allen,

 > There is to my knowledge, no good reason why infected
 > wax should not
 > be rendered and saved.  Although the spores are not
 > killed in the process,
 > experiments have shown that there is no risk of
 > infection from the wax,

Are there scientific articles about these
experiments?
please tell me the references, 'cause I have a
feeling people here are not gonna believe that
wax with spores can be recycled, unlress they
can read it in a scientific article

This discussion also applies to autoclaving
the AFB spores ( a leading European bee scientist,
Job van Praagh, told me yesterday that some spores
cannot be reached by the hot water vapours, as they
are covered w. propolis etc..; if they are covered,
would they not also be harmless to the bees just
like the spores in wax ?)

So if we could autoclave the spores that are accessible to both bees and
vaspour, we'd be ready.. ?

 > even if used for foundation.
 > The largest problem is to ensure that the wax combs,
 > honey etc are
 > kept from bee access until rendered.
 > There is a lot of valuable wax in a box of combs.

sincerely, Hugo

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