Joe said:
>never to fall in love with a diagnosis, especially the first diagnosis.

You must have missed the line "5 years later"
If you check archives, oct06 you can see the first evidence
that I saw of ccd.  Not recognized at that point. 

>especially few ambiguous symptoms.
No bees, no corpses is ambiguous?
(& not just 1 hive)

>I am unaware that a treatment for CCD exists
My secret patented snake oil (/joke)
check archives, last year, keyword VC

I suspect that most of these absconds happened
in October

>but might be better characterized as a rapid dwindling.  
A rose by any other name......

They made about 1/2 the normal amount of honey
that I would have expected, but also I don't think
last year was an especially good year for surplus.
(the hives that did not abscond did not fill 3 supers)

After I have questioned myself more that anyone here,
to continue (questioning) is neurotic.

You should count yourself lucky that you are only 
reading about this

dave

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