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  • From: Neil Lewis <lewisn@georgetown.edu>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] cure honey bee colony collapse
  • Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:20:08 -0400



Bees in the US have long suffered from the parasite nosema apis. The Nosema ceranae parasite is relatively new in the US, however. For some time it had been thought to have been introduced to US bees through imports of Australian bees, but research has shown that its presence antedates these imports and also the recent spate of colony collapse disorder. US researchers into CCD have considered it as a cause of CCD, but to the best of my knowledge US research has not implicated it as the cause, although it may be a contributing factor to the weakening of already stressed bee colonies. That it can be treated with fumagillin is also well known. It has been the object of considerable research in the US.
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:35:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Cure For Honey Bee Colony Collapse?
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Interesting. I wonder why no one has found this parasite before now. There
are a whole lot of people looking into CCD, strange nobody noticed this until
now.



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