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What About Hygiene???
by
, 08-04-2010 at 01:01 PM (9359 Views)
I am new to this Keeping Bees madness, and the one thing that I have noticed from the start of becoming interested is the lack of hygiene and possible cross-contamination that beekeeper indulge in.
I have been making homemade wine for years and the importance of hygiene is paramount. Now I am not talking full noddy suit and police forensics standards, but I have seen hive equipment sold or passed on. Old frames reused and old stores from dead hives reused in new nukes.
Now that is a recipe for failure if I did the same thing in wine making, the cross contamination possibilities are very high, just not worth the loss.
Is it time for beekeepers to change their ways and stop the reuse of old equipment, and the spread of infection?