>I wonder if it is proved or only hypothesized the link with Nosema bombi?

though this does not directly answer your question, Koppert Industries
in their CEQA(California Environmental Quality Act) doc several years
ago included protocols to freeze or drown B. impatiens colonies when
finished pollinating to mitigate pathogenic spillover to indengious
species

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