Stress is the key factor indeed for nosema.
Past autumn - as one should check at least 10% , hopefully 20% of the
colonies, and when you have too many colonies that end up impractical, I
order my apiaries by a subjective Stress factor. When doing the nosema
sampling, again without applying hard statistics to verify, there was a
clear trend of more nosema as the apiary was more stressed.

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