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Title: Elimination of
American Foulbrood Without the Use of Drugs: A Practical Manual for
Beekeepers Authors: Mark Goodwin & Cliff Van Eaton Publisher: National Beekeepers’ Association of New Zealand, Inc. Date: 1999 Size: A5, paperback, 78 pages, 11 illustrations, 24 colour plates ISBN: 0-473-05776-X Price: US$ 10.00 
Exchange rateAvailability: Cliff Van Eaton, 25 Perkins Drive, Te Puna, RD 6, Tauranga, NEW ZEALAND, ph/fax +64-7-552-4156, e-mail: cliff@comvita.com |
Abstract New Zealand has an enviable AFB control record. In the period 1990-1999, AFB incidence decreased by an average of 11% per annum, from 1.2% of beehives at the beginning of the period, to 0.3% of beehives in 1999. The current level is the lowest in New Zealand in 22 years, and the 3rd lowest in the country’s history.
What’s remarkable about this rapid decrease in AFB levels is that it was accomplished without the use of antibiotics that are a feature of AFB control in most other parts of the world. While in some countries strains of AFB are now being found that are resistant to these antibiotics, in New Zealand the use of antibiotics to control AFB is illegal.
Elimination of American Foulbrood Without the Use of Drugs reveals the methods New Zealanders have employed to achieve this unprecedented result. The manual combines research and scientific understanding regarding American foulbrood (in particular recent research conducted in New Zealand on the subject), with practical techniques New Zealand beekeepers have used to overcome large-scale American foulbrood outbreaks and eliminate the disease from their hives.
The manual is designed to be useful to all beekeepers, whether they own one beehive or manage a large-scale commercial beekeeping enterprise.
Elimination of American Foulbrood Without the Use of Drugs has been published by the National Beekeepers’ Association of New Zealand, as part of its responsibility as Management Agency for the National Pest Management Strategy for American Foulbrood.
Authors Mark Goodwin is a research scientist with the Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand, Ltd., and is stationed at the Ruakura Agriculture Centre in Hamilton. Mark and his team have conducted extensive research on the spread of American foulbrood. Mark is also technical advisor to the Pest Management Review Committee of the National Beekeepers’ Association (NBA), and provided technical assistance to that organisation in its development of the National Pest Management Strategy for American Foulbrood.
Cliff Van Eaton is a professional apiculturalist in the Bay of Plenty. Cliff has been an Apicultural Advisory Officer with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and was national manager for the American Foulbrood Control Programme contract with the NBA from 1991 to 1998. Cliff served as primary consultant to the NBA in the development of the National Pest Management Strategy for American Foulbrood.
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