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July Meeting Minutes

7-21-15   7:00 pm

President Hitchings talked about new laws at the state level concerning producing honey and the problems we have with complying.

 Discussion on this years honey production and problems.

 Video of Matt Hitchings

 We saw slides of brood patterns

 Parasitic Mite Syndrome and its association with EFB, can be tested ant the lab in Beltsville Md.

BREAK...............................

Video by Jamie Ellis of the University of Florida on EFB and AFB.

These Bacterial diseases only affect honeybees and is a worldwide problem  It affects 2-3 day old larva, with EFB not creating spores

  AFB has sunken cell, larva make scale in bottom of the cell and the larva has tongue exposed.  If you stir cell with toothpick it has a gooey stream following it.

  Treasures report $2140.32 balance on hand
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