Randy > I find this discussion on nosema to be of great interest.

You do realize the discussion took place in May of 2016, right? Doubt anyone remembers what it was about

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Subject: The Apicultural Coverup
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016
From:Debbee Corcoran <[log in to unmask]>
I am curious, does anyone agree with this article? 
http://www.beeculture.com/the-apicultural-coverup/

from the article:
> when a hive is split to form a nuc, the ability of that hive to produce a honey harvest is greatly diminished and any harvest that is obtained is unlikely to be anything like the harvest that would have resulted if the worker population was allowed to increase naturally without interruption.

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I am not naming names, but anyone who makes this sort of statement knows next to nothing about bee biology. It is absolutely possible to make nucs from colonies, even several times, without diminishing the harvest at all. 

I liken the process to what happens when you donate blood. You just make more blood. In a short time you are back to where you were. 

In fact, a hive that has nucs or packages pulled out of it -- (at the correct time and in the correct way) -- actually produces more than an unmanaged hive.

Lesson: just because someone can write persuasively in passable English, it doesn't necessarily follow that they have any idea what they are talking about. 

PLB

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