Nosema

[Etton]

I have not (knowingly) suffered a hive before from Nosema but think I am now. Loads of dead bees each day and poo on the floor-per pics. I have not yet inspected inside as too cold here in East Yorks.
Its a Buckfast Queen I bought last year and was my best hive.
Whats the best advice?

 

[Hivemaker.]

Could also be CBPV, more likely than Nosema.

 

[masterBK]

The only way to be certain it is Nosema is to grind up some bees with a little water, put sample on slide and look under the microscope at 400 X.

 

[enrico]

I take it they are not starving!
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[Etton]

Plenty of stores. Yes, could be cbpv, now trying to work out what to do. Thinking of removing Queen and what to do with the bees is the tricky question.

 

[Millet]

I remember a member on here a couple of years back spraying warm thymol sugar syrup on a colony with a bad case of nosema.. the colony quickly recovered but I can not remember who the member is..