>...but the higher levels of nosema ceranae were not just correlated with survival, but also with mite treatment (and given the mite treatments were acids, the changing of the pH in the hives).

Have you calculated how much acid it would take to change the pH of a typical hive significantly and compared that amount to what is actually employed in various acid treatments, and this one in particular?

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