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On 4-Mar-14, at 10:34 AM, randy oliver wrote:
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> I know that it's a bit early in the season for many of you, but a
> member of
> our local club brought in some dead drones from the front of a hive.
Hi Randy and all
This is different as mine occurred last September 14. I found drone
pupae, sometimes over 100 each, in front of half of my hives. We had
our first frost that morning (2-3 weeks early) and it had become
obvious to me, and surely the bees, that our normal 2 week goldenrod
flow would not occur in 2013(scale hive increases of over 10#/day
started Sep 9 and finished Sep 10). I have not seen this before or
after. I had bragged at our local Beek Assoc that I wouldn't need
mite treatments, pending one more count, because of almost non-
existent varroa levels all summer. Treatment levels were reached on
several of my hives when I checked sticky boards that week. Did the
bees detect high varroa and pull the pupae, I wonder?
Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W
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