Quote Originally Posted by Calum View Post
If you gather a swarm that is of unknown origin you have two choices to try and protect yourself from them bringing (possibly large levels of) FB spores with them.
1. Burn a sulphur strip in the swarm box after collection (with the bees still in it)
2. Starve them a bit

choice one is 100% sure to protect you
choice two is a percentages thing
Lol, yes.

This linky:http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/1053/1/Avhandling.pdf is a paper I keep going back to to explode some myths about AFB, our own NBU seems scared to tread on this ground in case beekeepers twig their colonies need not necessarily be destroyed if they have AFB and they can rid themselves (sometimes !) of the infection given a fresh start on clean comb.