Jerry wrote:

> Not sure treating comb with anything will help much.  We're not 
> recovering
> much Nosema from comb, we're finding it in the bees  themselves.

There seems to be an anomaly here.  We are told that most colonies that have 
died out from CCD have Nosema ceranae; if this is so, and these CCD colonies 
have no bees left, how was the Nosema ceranae detected if not from the comb?

Best wishes

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

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