Bee diseases American Foul Brood Sacbrood Nosema Chalkbrood Paralysis  Brood diseases affect the developing brood. A beekeeper must always check the brood for abnormalities. Larvae should be fat, shiny and white and the sealed brood should be even. Chalkbrood A fungus infecting and killing larvae that then dries and shrinks to a chalk like mummy. The house bees expose and then remove these mummies. Only occasionally does the disease affect so many larvae that the mummies are seen. It weakens but does not usually kill the colony .Remove the infected combs, control the disease and keep stresses on the colony (insecticides, pests, etc.) to a minimum. Unite the colony with a stronger one. This disease is found in Uganda. European Foul Brood This bacterium affects…