In a message dated 01/10/2007 23:56:50 GMT Standard Time,  
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So, when  you gonna send some bees in to Beltsville
>for a Nosema  test?



You don't need to send them off as you can easily check at home. All you  
need is an 'every schoolboy should have one' microscope giving 400x  
magnification and some recently dead bees. In fact you could ask school kids to  do it for 
you.
 
What I don't think you can do at home though is to distinguish between  
Nosema apis and N. ceraneae.
 
Chris



   

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