Jim

>are not detectable at all with anything less than a microscope.

I don't have a microscope, I'll have to change that
I wonder if a "snow spot" would be a superior sample?

And vis Chris (from memory)
>and a nurse then feeds larvae with infected tounge

Can larvae be infected with nosema?

dave

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