Nosema may well kill...

[PBee]

........... it'll be a season for viruses too on the same basis.
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Virus Season??

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[Hivemaker.]

Some of that lab research.

Effect of thymol and resveratrol administered with candy or syrup on the development of Nosema ceranae and on the longevity of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) in laboratory conditions.

http://www.apidologie.org/index.php...es/apido/full_html/2010/02/m09043/m09043.html

 

[MuswellMetro]

Quite. Shook swarm is no use. Will contaminate the new box and too weak at first to draw comb.

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agree with susbee and finman

I cannot understand why the national bee unit still advocate bailey change it was undertaken by bailey after autumn treating with fumidil b not as a method on its own

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-7348.1955.tb02488.x/abstractf

the NBU have not taken it in its context of the original paper, i am that old that as a student in the late 60s, i used to live near Rothamsted research Station and helped out mr bailey by driving the tractor to the reseach hives at nomansland common sandridge, he would never have agreed it was a treatment for Nosema on it own

 

[Spadaman]

There are umpteen threads on the forum about Nosema, and various links to research...is this the one your thinking about.

http://scialert.net/qredirect.php?doi=pjbs.2005.1142.1145&linkid=pdf

Yep - That's the one thanks.

Did you look when you should give the thymol or Fumidil?

cumulative effect over years? - that is new to me and I have read everything about nosema.

But if you read other reseachers, nosema goes over during spring and vanishes. Nosema does not sprad any more in spring when bees fly and can make poo every day.

The paper states that treatment was given in spring and autumn

Cumulative effect is shown in fig 1 - Fumidil effect levels off after first year but thymol effect increases year on year.

Also the lab research paper mentioned in another post shows thymol to be effective in reducing nosema spores.

Interestingly R O B Manley says that he was never much troubled by nosema and he used thymol in his feed although this was for prevention of mould and I am not sure if he connected the effect of thymol on nosema.

Thymol is cheap, not toxic , stops mould in syrup, can be used for varroa treatment and seems to be effective in reducing nosema - I 'll certainly continue to use it.

 

[Hawklord]

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What I do first is that I strengten my hive stands that the heavy yield will not collapse into bushes.

Strange you mention this as it's what I've been doing. I'm just hoping the yield I get this year will put more strain on the hive stands than the 8lb I took from my 6 colony's last year.

 

[mbc]

Speak for yourself, my goal is to fill all my empty equipment, continue with breeding my bees, smashing all my previous honey crop records and going into winter with lovely healthy colonies.