Winter Nosema Treatment

[nehoney]

I need a way to get Fumigillin of the bees during the winter since it is too late for syrup. I read that one cannot bring Fumigillim over 110F or it is useless which rules our cooking sugar blocks. Has anyone used a low temp method of making patties with Fumigillim? Better yet has anyone found a better method of treating for Nosema?

[rdy-b]

THIS CAME FROM ANOTHER SITE and i think it requiers 3 treatments                                                                                 Quote:
Originally Posted by Chef Isaac 
Keith:

I heard something similiar from a sideliner beekeeper. He said the easiest and most effective way to feed fumagilian is to mix a big batch and pour some in a garden watrer spout container and break the two chambers up and pour a little on the top bars.

You do this?
Chef, what you can do if your hives are very heavy is,

9.5 bottle fumagilin to 45 gal syrup, then 4oz per hive trrickle method.

This will only give them a short blast but will help them.

What I do is thymol in syrup in open feeding. This way the syrup is filled from the bottom up. Most of the time all around the brood chamber, right where you want it.

[Michael Bush]

>I need a way to get Fumigillin of the bees during the winter since it is too late for syrup.

Why?  Do they have nosema?  Have you identified spores under a microscope?  Have you done a field strip of a bee and examined the guts?

http://www.bushfarms.com/beespests.htm#nosema