PAEMEKS' BULLETIN 1713 



Figure 3. — Coiled and unsealed larvae sick or dead of European foulbrood : A, Healthy 

 coiled larva at the earliest stage at which larvae die of European foulbrood ; B, scale 

 formed by a dried-down larva ; O, one of several positions assumed by a sick larva prior 

 to death ; D, B, longitudinal views of scales formed from larvae that had assumed a 

 nearly lengthwise position at the time of death, quite difteient from the scale shown 

 in B. 



do not adhere tightly to the cells and are removed by the bees in 

 a strong colony. Occasionally larvae dead of European foulbrood 

 become brown and ropy and present other symptoms similar to those 



