On 24-Jan-10, at 9:27 AM, Karen Kimball wrote:

> Why there are no dead bees in the hives is what got me. I can see  
> dieing of starvation or disease but these bees left.

Hi Karen and all

I assume from your E-mail address that you are in Maine near the  
sea.  Your weather his fall would likely have been the same as ours  
in southern Ontario.  November here was warm and sunny with the bees  
flying but with little to forage on.  You say that you last checked  
them in October.  I believe that one of your treatments could have  
caused them to abscond in November leaving no bees dead or alive.  If  
they left after the snow came you would see many dead bees on the snow

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W
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