> Don't think so due to fact that collapse followed the the hot sommer 
> months here and in fact were still enough hot days, with muggy monsoon 
> weather added still...

Actually, I was thinking of your situation, but rather than thinking the 
heat would prevent nosema, that the hot summers might cook the equipment 
enough to make it safe.

There was some mention of CCD and I am still waiting for more details about 
whether it had been independently confirmed and how soon after the 
occurrence the equipment had been successfully reused.  I wondered if your 
summer temperatures might have had an influence.

I also wonder what happened to your neighbouring bees which are suspected of 
bringing in the new disease.
---

> Apparently, yes.  It is a time/temperature curve.  120F does in it a few 
> hours.  This is well below comb melting temp.  I've been imploring an 
> associate to work out the curve.

That will be interesting.  120 is not that hot, and actually is very likely 
in boxes stacked in the sun when empty of bees.
---

allen
http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary/2000/diary030300.htm#Singles & Doubles
---
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure 
is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what 
is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh 
experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully 
avoid.
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
 

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