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*One thing that has long surprised me with my many outyards is that
twoyards a quarter mile apart can be like night and day for
colonyproductivity. *
If foraging range is as high as several+ miles, then what exactly can
explain this observation? Is that one of the apiaries just outcompeting
the other for the exact same resources?
So there's also the potential estimates for short term VS. long term CC. I
know from observations, certain places here in NY/NJ/PA can support many
dozens for a month or so. But leave a large multi dozen sized apiary all
summer and fall, and winter. With no supplemental sugar feed. Perhaps
40-50% will be dead at minimum the following May.
Also worth considering, human population density. And the landowner
desires to recreationally keep bees. In such densely populated landscapes,
this desire seems to be quite high. Based on the map's I've seen in the EU
and US (e.g., Germany). Combine this with more environmental degradation
due to mowing. Climate change, drought, or false springs killing the
blooms (e.g., France's late freeze recently) etc.
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