On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:16:01 EDT, Jerry Bromenshenk <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>By all definitions, absconding is abandonment of the nest. Everybody
goes.
>The bees don't produce queen cells, or if any are present, these will
>usually be empty.
Hi Jerry,
Years ago I remember reading about a researcher who had placed a hive on
an extremly sensative electronic scale. This enabled him to record when
bees left and returned to the hive. He used the scale under a hive heavily
infected with acarine mites. If I remember right, as the hive collapsed
the infected bees (abandoned? absconded?)- left in waves of several
thousand bees at a time. Has such a scale been used on a hive collapsing
from CCD?
Ted
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