In a message dated 3/22/2010 2:00:11 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
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If Mr. Browning kept his bees inside to over winter and then found
one-third of his hives exterminated with no foragers, then he should be able to
find those foragers inside his shelter and available to be collected for
analysis. Not so?
I agree, but these guys tend to regularly sweep dead bees out of their
sheds, and Zac did not take samples at the time.
By now, anything left would be long gone in terms of decomposition. Jerry
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