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From: "DaveHamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Silent spring in northern Europe?


Bob
Are you guys in Missouri seeing the same "lazy bees" we are talking
about up here?  I have one farm with hives setting on CRP land in acres
of yellow sweat clover.  The clover this year has stayed in bloom for a
full month yet the bees in those 10 hives don't have 3 supers of honey
between them.

Looks like what we are seeing!

  Its been way cooler and wetter than most years here.

Us also!
Several other Nebraskans have said they are seeing similar.  What's your
ideas?

I believe I am seeing a pesticide kill in certain areas with the foragers
not returning to the hive causing low honey production and a loss of bees. I
went out yesterday at dusk to check numbers of bees in hives and the volume
of bees late in the day is down.

I actually had a yard doing exactly as the above are the last two years but
wrote off as unknown problem.
 I moved those bees into apples and then into a new yard and they produced a
crop of honeythis year. I have got lots of locations (from downsizing) so I
plan to move any yards   which are not producing honey by next week into new
locations for the last three weeks of the honey flow.
Will keep you posted!
Bob

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