Michael Palmer wrote:
>
> Maybe this is so...in California. But, I have never fed Fumidil in 
> Vermont. Instead, if a colony is all poopy in the spring, it is 
> requeened with a queen raised from a colony that wintered well, with 
> no signs of Dysentery. I now see very little dysentery, and my 
> colonies are "fat" with no Fumidil crutch.
Second that. I still have some in the freezer from when I first started 
keeping bees. I found that my bees dysentery problems were not from 
nosema but local fall honey. Top bars were black with it in some colonies.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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