Bob, fall feeding will stimulate older foragers to engage in the search for
the source outside of the hive (they don't know any better).  Many of those
older foragers will die.

I have seen far more dead bees on the ground in recent years.  I have
checked time and again, and haven't found that nosema counts correlate, so
think that it is something else.  I strongly suspect virus.

Randy Oliver--doing nosema counts on dead bees Thanksgiving morning

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