> You are absolutelly rigth. It will depend on the age of the bees, as older
> the higher the spore count. But also it will depend on the time that you
> left the sample to rest before taken to the microscope. It seem that the
> spores float, so if you give enough time (more than 10 minutes) you will
> have higher counts.
>
> I always take the samples from the bees that return in the afternoon with
> polen loads and left the sample to rest the same amount of time (10
> minutes).
>
> Juanse
>
>
>  Trevor Weatherhead
>
> How much of the variation is in the sampling?  Way back in the 80's when I
> was with the Dept of Primary Industries, one of the things I was hoping to
> look at was the sampling error for nosema within the hive.  .....
> AUSTRALIA
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