lost 4 of 33 hives this winter. sent the corpses to the USDA lab in Beltsville.
1-23 million Nosema spores per bee & 28 mites per 100. these counts are off the charts. as Jim Tew likes to say, 'this hive was dead. they just didn't know it yet.'
2-3 million Nosema spores per bee & 0 mites good numbers so why did they die?
3-6.7 mites & no Nosema
4-18 million spores & 3.5 mites. another dead hive walking.