What is a method to help manage sacbrood disease?

Managing sacbrood disease effectively often involves removing infected larvae from the hive to help minimize the spread of the disease. When you use tweezers to carefully extract the infected larvae, this action helps eliminate the source of infection, allowing the remaining bees and healthy larvae to thrive. It is crucial to handle this process with care to avoid disturbing the overall hive environment, which can lead to additional stress on the colony.

While requeening the hive, improving ventilation, and adding more honey frames are all practices that can be beneficial for colony health in various contexts, they do not directly address the immediate issue of sacbrood disease as effectively as the removal of the infected larvae does. Requeening might introduce new genetics and improve overall queen performance, but it will not eliminate existing infections within the hive. Improving ventilation can aid in general hive health and reduce moisture but is not a specific treatment for the disease. Adding more honey frames may support the colony in times of food scarcity but does not target the disease itself. Therefore, the focus on removing infected larvae is a targeted and practical approach to managing sacbrood disease.