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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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