> http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8232000/8232607.stm
>
> "When animals die, their corpses exude a particular "stench of death"
> which repels their living relatives, scientists have discovered.
Very interesting, Bill.
CCD hives, by definition, have large amounts of brood and almost no bees.
Brood without bees to feed and warm it tends to die. Under some conditions,
quite a bit of brood would be dead.
I wonder if dead brood is repulsive to would-be invading insects like SHB
and moths as well as to bees?
Sounds very plausible.
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