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Date: | Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:37:59 -0500 |
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> If I took a 50% loss, I'd want to be sure about the pest, disease, even
> pesticide status of the best colonies compared to the struggling and to the
> dead colonies. The costs should prove to be far cheaper than making the
> wrong call, basing corrective action on a guess. Varroa is possible,
> probably probable. But what if it's something else?
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Amen. I have said this before, but a commercial beekeeper here in Maine
reported high losses to Varroa but the State Inspector looked at them and
it was Tracheal. I keep hearing that Tracheal has gone away, but I still
put the grease patty on every year.
Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine
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