I alluded earlier that untreated beehives has a direct correlation to winter losses. In essence, I call it a gut problem and when left untreated can lead to some pretty serious honey bee diarrhea and eventually death. Well what is Nosema anyway? Here’s your Nerd-word for the day Nosema is a microsporidian parasite. Here, I’m dosing my honey bees during fall with sugar syrup mixed with my homemade Honey-B-Healthy to prevent Nosema. Don’t wait until you see the symptoms.~ This is one of my older style top hive feeders. ~First, listen up because I’m going to give it to you straight- You must treat to PREVENT Nosema. Today, I’m going to tell you HOW to treat and WHEN to treat in order to PREVENT your honey bees from getting Nosema. Well, I’m sad to say that the speaker at the club that evening was one of the club officers and so he had a lot of wanna-bees looking up to him and soaking in every word. My apprenticeship had hammered into me for years that I had to treat for Nosema if I wanted healthy honey bees going into winter and then coming into spring. It seemed that he had not put two and two together. This means that I may receive a commission if you decide to make any purchases using my affiliate links. The links on this website may contain affiliate links. Well, forty-five minutes later, when the discussion had moved on, this guy said as a matter-of-fact that he has not seen the need to treat for Nosema in the last fifteen years. He was talking about his devastating winter losses and stated simply that he just could not understand why he lost so many beehives during the winter from year to year. I showed up a little late and the speaker for the evening was already in the middle of a discussion. I will never forget my very first beekeeping club meeting in January of 2017.
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