Table 1.

Summary of disease infection in experimental colonies through time. (Infection was quantified as the number of cells containing dead, symptomatic larvae or AFB ‘scale’ in colonies after initial infection.)

	week 1	week 2	week 3	week 4	week 5	week 6	week 7
AFB 1	0	0	0	0	26	91	228
AFB 2	0	0	0	5	67	89	71
AFB 3	0	0	0	3	6	178	30
AFB 4	0	0	0	1	58	57	125
AFB 5	0	0	0	15	143	342	a
control 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
control 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
bee marking	T0		T1		T2
collection		7 d (T0)	14 d (T0)	7 d (T1)	14 d (T1)	7 d (T2)	14 d (T2)
treatment			AFB	AFB

^aColony AFB 5 absconded before week 7.