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🧪 Sterilising and Sanitising Beekeeping Equipment

Dip a contaminated hive frame into washing soda, sodium hypochlorite, flame or steam treatment and watch the spore/grime kill curve play out in real time.

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A hive frame gets dipped, dosed or scorched under four different decontamination methods while a simplified kill-curve model tracks how much contamination — ordinary grime, or American foulbrood spores — actually survives.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Contamination falls on a log scale driven by method, concentration and temperature. Washing soda only becomes spore-effective once boiling; hypochlorite and steam scale with dose and heat; flame chars almost instantly.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a treatment method, set its concentration and temperature, then drag exposure time forward. Watch the red speckles clear from the frame and the status readout flip between safe and not-safe.

💡 Did You Know?

American foulbrood spores can remain viable in old comb and equipment for over 40 years, which is why UK beekeepers treat any suspected case as a notifiable biosecurity event, not routine cleaning.

⚙ Under the hood

Dip a contaminated hive frame into washing soda, sodium hypochlorite, flame or steam treatment and watch the spore/grime kill curve play out in real time.

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