Jerry Bromenshenk wrote:

>Has anyone seen this in Wisconsin, Maine, New York?  

Towards the end of the inspection season I saw a lot of bees that were
headed south and I thought to myself "it's a good thing they are moving
because they wouldn't have made it through a NY winter". I thought they were
tanking due to very heavy mite loads and the related illnesses. 

The beekeepers who were not moving generally had better looking colonies,
though not all were well above par. Of courser, you need a lot of young bees
to winter over, and if the mites are getting the upper hand, they probably
don't have this.

Happy Holidays!

pb

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