Sweet Honey Company & Special Education Fund for Deserving Beekepers'
Children
2017 Survival Report

August 2016
29 production hives (2-deep, 10 frame Langstroth) & 6 nucs (2 or 3 deep, 4
frame Langstroth)
All treated in August with Apiguard according to the label
After follow-up mite counts, treated the production hives in Sept with 1
MAQS/hive. Nucs received no second treatment.

Feb 11, 2017
27 production hives alive (2 died) and 0 nucs (all died)

Feb 18, 2017
7 lite hives will be fed candy boards

Steve Sweet



On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi all
> I am trying to get a sense of how serious the current dieback is. Is it
> confined to the north or northeast?
>

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