Morphic
06-06-2005, 07:33 PM
Ok, I'm thinking my hive has nosema due to the streakiness on the front of the hive. What can i do to treat this? Cure it?
Dwight
06-07-2005, 08:50 AM
I use a teaspoon of Fumigallin in a gallon of sugar syrup in the spring and again in the fall for preventative treatment. I'm not sure if it will cure an already infected hive but I suspect it will help.
Michael Bush
06-07-2005, 09:26 AM
Dysentary is one symptom of Nosema, but bees having dsysentary does not necessarily mean they have Nosema. USUALLY it's just dysentary.
Read through these slides (keep going next until the subject is no longer Nosema) and you'll learn something about Nosema:
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/pest&disease/slide36.htm
It shows a healthy and nosema infected gut. You can field strip a bee to compare this. You simply grasp it by the head and abdomen and take it apart.