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Date: | Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:27:40 -0500 |
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It is true that the colonies "boiling over" with bees in late spring are more rare now than they were 2 decades ago.
But caged bees never have lived as long as bees in a real functioning beehive, even an ob-hive, so I'd hesitate before assuming that this finding applies to bees in hives in yards in the real world.
I've not seen the "Shapiro–Wilk" statistical tool used in ages - it is a very sensitive test with sharp edges that may exaggerate the actual departure from the normal distribution. I submit that other tools might not produce the same result for the "yield per hive" figure. Also, we must recall that during the reporting period analyzed, a significant chunk of the US beekeeping industry realized that pollination fees were the profitable part of beekeeping, and that honey was a distraction, so many hives were not managed to maximize honey crops, resulting in a deliberately lower "yield per hive" as a result of a business decision. (Or, more succinctly, "Almonds did for beekeeping what cocaine did for Miami").
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