> Collapses hardly correlate with winter feeding.  If anything, the protein-fed colonies appear to do better.  California feeding is only necessary if colonies were brought in without adequate honey and pollen stores.  Naturally well-fed colonies need zero feeding or stimulation of any sort to make grade in almonds.

Thanks, Randy, for repeating this one more time.  I am quite concernd that we continue to be bombarded by unsubstantiated statements or queries, and not just on this one topic.

The repeated injection of misinformed assumptions and wild generalizations -- whether by statement or query -- often by people with no direct knowledge skews conversation away from more productive areas and discourages many informed members who find uneducated and unresearched debate a tedious waste of time. 

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