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Hi Aaron,
Thank you for sharing your excellent observations!
As I see it, whether or not collapses should be attributed to CCD
specifically is of minor importance, if it distracts from the fact that a
number of beekeepers worldwide are experiencing losses far above the
"normal." I talk to these guys, or correspond with them, and feel the
frustration of experienced beekeepers watching their operations collapse.
Just last night, as we were hauling a couple of truckloads of bees home, a
California commercial beekeeper called to share the extensive collapses that
he and several of his fellows were experiencing these past weeks. I'm
writing this before I head out to unload them, and I have little idea of
what I'll see in my own boxes. I checked all these colonies closely a few
weeks ago, and all appeared to be heavy and in good health, yet as I loaded
them last night, some 5-10% felt like they had been robbed out.
The extent of losses in France (2005-2006) is sobering--see
http://www.api-connaissance-sanitaire.fr/mortalites%20colonies.htm --excerptedbelow.
Note that these were small yards--not large commercial beekeepers.
Randy Oliver
% de mortalité de colonies dans certains ruchers du département
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
100 % (57/57)
Aveyron
60 % (15/25)
Cantal
importante (sans données chiffrées)
Deux-Sèvres
38 % (243/637)
Dordogne
100 % (25/25)
Haute-Garonne
100 % (57/57)
Hérault
100 % (38/38)
Indre
21 % (nombre de colonies non précisé)
Loire
50 % (22/44)
Lozère 1
93 % (29/31)
Lozère 2
70 % (30/34)
Puy-de-Dôme
91 % (21/23)
Pyrénées Atlantiques
74 % (52/70)
Hautes-Pyrénées
75 % (15/20)
Sarthe 1
50 % (nombre de colonies non précisé)
Sarthe 2
100 % (nombre de colonies non précisé)
Vienne
40 % (30/75)
Haute-Vienne
75 % (18/24)
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