Gavin wrote:
>Alternatively, if CCD = Nosema (maybe two types) + stress, then isn't the 
>loss of bees after confinement and trucking consistent with this?

I learnt that nosema was a 'stress disease' in early 1981 - just before I 
started keeping bees - so it does not come as a surprise that transporting 
bees increases the level of nosema in colonies.  If that nosema happens to 
be N. ceranae then I am even less surprised that colonies crash shortly 
after a move.

Best wishes

Peter Edwards
beekeepers at stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk
www.stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk/

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