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On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 3:21 PM Jerry Bromenshenk <
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> >The beekeepers who were doing a good job keeping mites under control
> weren't experiencing the same problems.<
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> Randy >I'm not sure that the above is true. Many of us beekeepers and
> inspectors
> were very familiar with the signs of colonies that had collapsed (or were
> collapsing) due to varroa. We were observing something else happening<
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> I agree with Randy. Like Randy, I kept bees for decades before, during,
> and after the introduction and establishment of tracheal and then varroa
> mites. Mite induced colony collapses and/or absconding is not the same as
> what we saw with CCD. Good Beekeeping wasn't the magic answer for
> avoiding what I saw through 2010. I don't think it's a stretch to
> hypothesize that PPB doesn't help.
>
> When I and my team inspected and sampled colonies collapsing in 2006,
> Christmas Eve week; we heard stories of the same disorder having occurred,
> but on a more localized region, in 2004.
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> As I saw and have stated, and as Randy saw - the 'true' CCD had every
> attribute of a contagious disease.
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> Jerry
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