chalkbrood Archives - Professional Beekeepers

Topic: chalkbrood

published - 12 September 2019
By Nadine Chapman

Spring management

Spring has sprung, and it is time for beekeepers to spring into action to ensure a good season.
Early spring inspections

Is there a laying queen?
Is there a good brood pattern?
Inspect for brood diseases – chalkbrood is a particular problem at this time of year
How much food is left? Do you need …
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chalkbrood, hive management, honey, queen bees, spring, supplementary feeding, swarming

Managing your hives, Pests and diseases

Chalkbrood mummies at the entrance to a colony

published - 19 August 2019
By Nadine Chapman

The fungus Ascosphaera apis causes chalkbrood disease in honey bees. The disease occurs in honey bee larvae fed fungal spores by nurse bees. The spores germinate in the gut and the larvae die of starvation, before the fungus grows throughout the larval body turning it into a hard “mummy”.
Chalkbrood is …
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barrier management, chalkbrood, hive management, spring

Managing your hives, Pests and diseases