| the contamination of winter stores and early spring honey with spores of paenibacillus larvae larvae in polish apiaries of the małopolska province. | we analysed 251 early spring and winter storage honey samples, individually collected from the apiaries of 9 districts of malopołska province in south poland and revealed that 51 of these specimens were contaminated with different levels of p. larvae larvae spores among these samples 8.8% were classified as a category i contamination and 11.5% as a category ii--reperesenting 22 (43.1%) and 29 (56.9%) of the total positives, respectively. we conclude from these analyses that: (1)--the total numbe ... | 2007 | 17882929 |