>many reports of bees ignoring honey 
plants
this year and not thriving. Which is the way things
started last year.

Does this have to do with CCD or with weather? From
what I understood, last year's drought in the
midwestern US caused a dearth of nectar in many of the
usual honey plants, making them less attractive to
bees. Did those conditions affect the same plants'
ability to produce this season?

Eugene Makovec
Kirkwood, MO USA

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