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Date: | Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:46:42 -0600 |
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This question has been bothering me since 2006. I was happy when BIP started doing it’s surveys, but as mentioned on this forum many times, their methodology has limitations. The vast majority of hives are controlled by commercial operations, while the respondents are mostly hobbyist/side-liners.
So what should researchers count? Colony numbers are one way, but a tiny struggling single deep counts the same as a packed double deep. Box numbers? No, because they vary in size and colony strength. Frames of bees? Maybe, but at what time of year? (And who has the time/energy/ money to track that?)
In other words, if you really wanted to measure the actual numbers behind honey bee decline (if there is one) in the US, what would you count?
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