> Spring Dwindling disease was not considered to be the same as Disappearing
> Disease. It was defined as a malady affecting adult bees.
Specifically
> "Unless there has been a very severe winter, spring dwindling is the
result of
> ignorant or careless management". It is often accompanied by dysentery.
I've also read contemporary writers describe "normal spring dwindling"
as the perfectly normal population drop-off when a colony is raising
early brood, but not yet at a rate to replace normal bee deaths.
So, the terminology could be said to be very "loose" in this area.
The etymology of entomology is little more than epistemology. :)
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