I really like that this was a conversation and a brief discussion on what to do if you see this. Also it is always a good idea to have a second pair of eyes (professional) on a potential issue.
Excellent. Dereck is a great presenter and really great explanation. I’ve had Sacbrood a couple of times and it’s cleared up on its own but a great educational video! Thank!
Thank you for bringing the knowledge of the Tech Transfer into your videos! Never thought this is what they bring to the table. More videos like this please! You are truly educating us all!
I am sorry that you got problems with that nuke , But I am also happy because you are teaching us what to look for an that educational knowledge is priceless..I seriously thank you for showing us 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦
Good video, Derek knows his stuff and explains it almost as good as you do. Good KRTP. We have two bee inspectors for the entire State of Wisconsin. I think Florida does the best job overall, California is extremist like everything else there, imho. Good to support your State (or Province) Bee program. You would enjoy one of those portable USB into a laptop or cellphone MICROSCOPES..... That would have added even more to this well done video.
Great video showing what to look for in the differences between the two brood diseases. I have only seen Sacbrood one time, it was also in a springtime NUC. Yeah, before diagnosis, the fear of something worse runs thru your mind! Thanks for the video.
Very informative video. I was taught the ropiness test probably 10 years ago when I did my beginners course with my local beekeepers association, using the flat end of a matchstick, but nice to see that it still applies as a valid indicator test regarding AFB. Supposedly the smell should be quite bad with AFB as well from what I have heard.
I had something similar happen to one of my hives. In knew the adult bee population was old. Nurse bees are young. I gave it a frame of emerging brood and things cleared up. I think there are 2 issues here. 1. Genetics and 2. Age of the adult bee population
American found brood usually has a dark scale on the bottom 1/3 rd of the cells. So hold the frame in angle to put light on the lower part of brood cells, that frame had NONE of that on close shots.
Great clarification of what sac brood looks like. Many thank Derek for sharing your expert knowledge with us all. Fortunately on this occasion it’s not AFB! 😊
Good catch there! I am sure you are very relieved, and I am too. I am very ignorant about the diseases, so I appreciated learning about this one. Your operation is so good - and I am so happy to learn more about the bees. Also, his showing how to diagnose between AFB and this Sac Brood was very simple and clear, which again helps you to keep on top of things and know what to do. I appreciate Derek's well explained lesson. And the tools to do that test are all over your farm, so testing supplies are very cheap!
Wonder if you put in a new queen and some addition nurse bees if it would pull out of it? Would be a good experiment but I also understand the desire to just get it out of the operation. Good information and thank you for sharing!
I just wonder how many disease and infections do bees deal with on a regular basis that beekeepers don't know about and only find out when the colony is small and weak 😌
Afb has that particular coffee brown colour consistency..roping out in a sticky manner stringing stretchy and smells like blood and bone fertiliser a bit .. keep all your gear clean daily .. hope everything is ok
Looks like an experiment to me. take a hand full of bees from your best hygienic hive add it to this one and put hygienic money where it's mouth is. Those few bees should start cleaning out the hive and then queen cell from that hygienic hive when they are ready to bring the hive back As he said it's just a few frames in the operation. An excellent small scale experiment without a major program on the actual effectiveness of hygienic s added to a troubled hive in action.
Good call. .. I would not take any risks and burn down the entire hive. It is quite interesting to note Derek poking his pen into the brood and not using any latex gloves. These are viral diseases.
This gives a terrible imbalance of eggs being laid and not enough nurse bees I will confine the queen and give nurse bees when I see this you could even lock the queen up a few days in a cage if you wanted I've came out of this situation many times one hive gave me 1300 in honey after just makeing her stay in the deep chamber with an excluder
Say you did find AFB in a yard, what's your protocol for dealing with it? Pull the infected colonies out, destroy them and then give the rest of the yard antibiotics?
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I agree with susceptible genetic (mellifera mellifera, my opinion).., I see this especially in early spring with chalkbrood, but I have never seen it with sacbrood! I know it sounds bizzare..., but I always thought at least theoreticcaly.., that sacbrood (befor varroa) was a virus of the adult bee and not of the brood.. and now with the mites as vector it jumps into the brood. thats why I asked you about the counts while you are treating your ladys! ;-) Ian, thanks a lot for your YT work!!! Is it possible that your patties are not working well, not enough crude protein or EAA spectrum problems??? how are your jelly levels??? the last two years I did some trials to check the difference inbetween sup-patties and liquid proteins...., the difference is clear..., liquid is an immediat inpackt on the jelly levels, (visully seen after 24 hours), I`ve never seen this inpact with patties.... maybe one of the stress factors you mentioned????
