Randy Oliver wrote: > I recently posted that some Midwestern states have > excessively high winter mortality rates of late. Yes some states Randy (Iowa, Illinois), but not all. Here is a map of corn acres planted by county in 2010 vs. a map of total colony loses by state during the fall 2009 to winter 2010 that I lifted from this report: http://ibra.live.subhub.com/articles/US-bee-loss-survey-2009-10 http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu87/4ALC/cornbees.jpg As you can see, even though moderate to high amounts of corn are grown in Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin the total colony losses were relatively low to moderate. And loses were moderate to high from West Virginia and up through the New England States even though the corn acres planted were low. Paul Cherubini El Dorado, Calif. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm