In a message dated 01/03/2008 13:19:16 GMT Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: Nosema ceranae is running rampant in some operations-- these guys are calling me and buying scopes to do their own testing. I have spent the day at a microscopy workshop where we prepared slides of Nosema ceranea from a sample kindly provided by the Central Science Laboratory and were unable visually to distinguish them from the N.apis samples. The lab people who do it for a living can't be sure by looking and so use a PCR machine. Chris **************************************************** * General Information About BEE-L is available at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/default.htm * ****************************************************