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Beekeeping => Pests and Diseases => Topic started by: Jen on March 13, 2021, 12:49:32 pm

Title: Nosema
Post by: Jen on March 13, 2021, 12:49:32 pm

Not sure but a couple of hives have a huge mess of black sloppy bee poo. Thinking nosema. Should these hives be burned?

Title: Re: Nosema
Post by: iddee on March 13, 2021, 03:35:48 pm

NO. Nosema is curable and is not unusual in early spring.

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Title: Re: Nosema
Post by: Zweefer on March 27, 2021, 10:51:14 pm

 :agree:

Title: Re: Nosema
Post by: Bakersdozen on March 28, 2021, 10:37:42 am

American Foulbrood is the only disease where burning the equipment is the solution.   Early in my beekeeping journey I bought a package of bees that had nosema.  I treated with fumagillin.  That cleared it up but I saw evidence of it again and again over time.  I lost that colony, for a reason I don't remember.  Probably was for the best.