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Chilled Brood

Chilled brood first looks black, and then becomes a black scale. Chilled brood is, many times, seen after a pesticide kill denudes the hive workforce and prevents the hive from warming the brood to the common internal hive temperatire of 101-102 degrees F.

Photos on this page from: Honey Bee Brood Diseases by Henrik Hansen. There is no better book for field identification of bee diseases than this!


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