On 30/12/2010 1:48 AM, randy oliver wrote:
> >Re your question, that is exactly a hypothesis that I have proposed to all
> the major nosema researchers.  If a bee raises its body temperature to 100F
> for a few days, it will kill all Nosema apis (but not necessarily N
> ceranae).  If the cluster does so, it will kill or inhibit varroa, tracheal
> mite, chalkbrood, and small hive beetle.
Are you suggesting that they can do such a thing?  I would have thought 
that 40C (body temp) would be deadly to the bee/s.

Geoff Manning

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