European Foulbrood Office Hours 2025
Learn about the honey bee bacterial disease, European foulbrood and more about how MSU's research into the disease. Designed for beekeepers to identify and manage this disease.
Michigan State University honey bee disease experts cover information on the honey bee disease European foulbrood (EFB), in addition to recent and ongoing EFB research at MSU. Dr. Meghan Milbrath and Dr. Peter Fowler give MSU's EFB research highlights, how to recognize signs of this disease, management strategies, and provide recommendations on what to do if you find it in your bee yard. They provide many example scenarios and answer audience questions.
Resources:
- Diagnostic tools for honey bee diseases
- Michigan honey bee veterinarians contact list
- Honey Bee Veterinary Consortium's Find a bee vet
- Sending samples to the USDA
- Ask Extension
- Michigan Pollinator Initiative website
- MSU Extension Beekeeping & Pollinators website
- MSU Extension Beekeeping & Pollinators events
- Sign up for MSU Extension's "Beekeeping & Pollinators" news digest