>that _most_ CCD is imaginary, 
So perhaps you can explain why winter loss (in NA) has
increased by +10% the past 5 years.
I will agree that there has been much mis-diagnosis

>and that any real CCD by its nature is hard to observe
Not so, look at the nearest survivor hive, there are nearly always some.

dave

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