> New Research published by Dainat et. Al. (2012) show that DWV, Varroa and 
> Nosema can be strong predictive markers for colony collapse. The 
> predictive power depends strongly on the season.

I thought that we all knew that!  In 2001 Dr Stephen Martin was telling us 
that bees going into winter with DWV would live on average 88 days. So a 
badly affected colony in October would die out in January.  Seems that 
nosema may not be necessary?

Best wishes

Peter
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