In a message dated 16/11/2007 13:14:29 GMT Standard Time,  [log in to unmask] 
writes:

He  proposed that keeping the bees in closed hives for the many hours often  
required to
transport them, may have a detrimental effect by interfering  with the bee's 
ability to control the temperature inside the hive.
If such  an effect exists at all, it certainly would not be "infective. 


It might be infective if the inability to defecate outside the hive whilst  
shut in multiplied Nosema (A or C) at a season where normally it would  
diminish.
 
Chris



   

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