A short while ago, Bill T suggested that nosema was involved with
dysentery.  I in turn asked for members of the List to actually put some
dysentery samples under the scope to confirm.
The lack of response was deafening!

Yesterday I finally found a hive with dysentery streaking on the face.  It
was a simple matter to scrape some of the material off with a pocket knife
into a folded scrap of paper (it doesn't take but a flake).  Under the
scope, I found that the sample contained pollen grains, unidentified
material, a few nosema spores (appeared to be ceranae), but most notably,
amoeba cysts.

Could the members please help me out?  Please scrape some samples for me
(please be careful with the sharp pocket knives) into scraps of folded
paper, and mail them to me.  I will then be able to support or dismiss the
hypothesis that the cause of dysentery is nosema, and whether there are
always pollen grains present (which would indicate that the dysentery was
only from nurse bees).

Thanks,
Randy Oliver
14744 Meadow Dr
Grass Valley CA  95945

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