Keith said;
 In the past I have seen dysentery in my apiaries, but then I did feed sugar
syrup in those years.

I have found that bees winter better with less dysentery when fed scrap
granulated sugar rather than fructose but getting a supply of inexpensive
granulated sugar plus the extra work of processing into syrup might not
offset a small dysentery problem

When bees are confined for long periods dysentery comes into play. We always
wonder what might be the cause and blame many things.

Stored winter stores is always suspect but there can be *many* other things
which cause dysentery in bees.

The  hive which has had dysentery problems but which has survived the winter
never seems to prosper. Have others seen the same thing?

Bob

Ps. Most understand the difference on the list but for  new beekeepers
*dysentery* and *nosema* are very different problems.

Beekeeping tip:
 A simple way to tell the difference is to test for nosema and if no nosema
then your hive *most likely* has a dysentery problem as symptoms are
similar.

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