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> Once forms and shades of the above morphed into being used as examples of CCD, with no clarity, then many started questioning and skepticism crept in.
Jose
I greatly appreciate the clarity with which you have described what actually happened. It certainly was a small fire that turned into a big one, when folks started squirting it with gasoline.
I was working as an apiary inspector during 2006-2008 and I never saw anything that fits the description we were given, despite going through many hundreds (1000s? I never kept track) of hives.
Later, about 2012, or so, I saw a colony that fit it exactly: Lots of normal brood, queen, hardly any bees. Another year about 80% of the colonies in this region vanished before Christmas. No brood was left, but I often wondered if it was the same syndrome, only happening after the brood season was over.
Since then I have been asked to explain "absconding" where the bees seem to just take off, without a clue left behind.
Pete Bee
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