Dealing with Nosema

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I have a hive that is showing signs of nosema, I haven't been able to test the bees yet, but the hive front, frames and low population are pointing in that direction.

Obviously re-queening at the moment is not an option, maybe in a week or three when I start doing splits. I do however have an overwintered nuc which I was considering hiving and uniting with the poorly colony. I was going to discard any heavily soiled frames of stores and save the brood to bolster numbers.

Any comments or suggestions welcome

 

[Finman]

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Just now I ahve several hives where nosema has dwindled away worker bees.
Queens are there.

I have taken 2 frames of bees from healty hives and I have started new nucs with queen.
Sick workers are few and no reason to mix them with new bees.

Next step is that I give a frame of emeging bees to the nuc and then it starts.
Then I see is that queen capable to lay. Later I add again emerging bees.
The goal is to get a box full of brood for mainyield

According my experince 2/3 out of queens are OK and start to lay normally.

 

[Finman]

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Nonstand, add to the hive a frame of emerging bees and look what happens.

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[Sean.]

Can you not feed them thymolated syrup? Or even spray them with some to make them have to clean it up.
If you merge or move frames between colonies then you are risking infecting others.

 

[Hombre]

At a guess I would say that you don't feed thymolated syrup over winter?