((Well, I "thought" I just sent you a message, but I guess it 
kicked me out - I'll try to duplicate it....))

That's strange - the bees have to go somewhere - sounds like the 
symptoms we used to hear for sacbrood, Nosema, or some such. If a 
colony is losing bees, some percentage of those exiting bees have 
to have some anomaly (ruling out kingfisher birds, of course). How 
about pollination cages to trap'em all when the weather warms up?
Thanks for the reply.
   - John

On Wed Apr 23 10:37:35 CDT 2008, Jerry Bromenshenk 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Putting dead bee traps on colonies in CCD yards will not help 
> much -  remember, there are few or no dead bees associated with 
> CCD.  We've had a  counter on an observation hive with CCD and a 
> trap.  We recovered very few  dead bees.  The bees fly out, never 
> to come back.   Jerry

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