"[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: hard to tell from a video but it would appear to me those colonies were starving. every frame they 
pulled looked empty of honey stores. 

maybe thats why the colonies had few workers and looked weak? 

if this is all it takes to diagnose as CCD no wonder there are so many non-believers.


I wouldn't do any diagnosis of a hive from what little video was shown in that presentation.  I think the video was done more to show varroa mite evaluation technique than anything else, especially a CCD diagnosis.

Mike in LA

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