Good post Jim.

 I hadn't thought it through that way. Jerry  Bromenshenk Used his best
equipment to find something volatile in a hive at all stages of CCD. I'd
guess he could find it if anyone could. His equipment will trap a gas in a
glass tube full of charcoal. It is analyzed later at the big machine.
Perhaps those samples are still waiting for the funds. 

 

On the subject of robbing. The 15 dead hives (all of them) I found this
spring, were cleared for varroa, t-mites, and nosema. I have since put bees
into most of the equipment and they are happy. However, I have about 10
supers of honey that I left uncovered, expecting them to be robbed out--for
about a month now. A few bees have checked them out but won't rob them.
(There is a flow on). BTW they wouldn't take feed in the fall. Do I think
this is CCD? No.

 

Dick Marron


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