>Many of our club members are observing occasional hives that collect heaps
of dead bees under the entrance but the colonies are surviving.

Have you already checked for tracheal mites?  There were problems last year
with tracheal mites in Tennessee.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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