Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two fatal diseases that affect honeybee larvae, caused by the bacteria Paenibacillus larvae and Melissococcus plutonius.
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- noun A
bacterial disease ofbees .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many thought the chinese were using it to treat foulbrood disease in honeybee colonies.
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Many thought the chinese were using it to treat foulbrood disease in honeybee colonies.
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European foulbrood - similar to diarrhoea, which kills bees through body-fluid loss - but many Chinese producers are believed to overdose even healthy hives as a preventative measure, leaving potentially toxic traces in the honey harvest.
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Absconding swarm, American foulbrood, Braula coeca, buff comb, Demaree ('the method of swarm control that separates the queen from most of the brood within the same hive'), supersedure ('a natural replacement of an established queen by a daughter in the same hive')—it's all here.
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Entomologists and microbiologists at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station say 10 percent of registered hives have a serious level of infection by the American foulbrood bacteria.
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We've got the Langstroth hive and a couple medications for foulbrood and mites, but otherwise the process of producing honey is the same as it's been since the beginning of history.
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For the last 100 years, beekeepers have experienced colony losses from bacteria, (foulbrood), mites (varroa and tracheal) and other pathogens.
Signs of the Times 2009
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Honeybees in Maryland have a new ally against American foulbrood, a bacterial disease that kills bee larvae and jumps quickly from one hive to the next.
unknown title 2009
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'What this hygiene can do is control certain types of disease, particularly diseases of the brood like chalkbrood, American foulbrood and varroa mite.
British Blogs 2008
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'What this hygiene can do is control certain types of disease, particularly diseases of the brood like chalkbrood, American foulbrood and varroa mite.
British Blogs 2008
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The company, Dalan Animal Health, which is based in Athens, Ga., developed a prophylactic vaccine that protects honeybees from American foulbrood, an aggressive bacterium that can spread quickly from hive to hive.
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