Jerry,
It is odd that this is happening in let's say late Oct, to
most November, to even first part Dec, but mostly November.

This is relative to going into winter, vs coming out of
winter when normally things happen, which makes it seem
relative back to Aug/Sep(first part of Oct) timing for
broodnest turnover and whether or not it was successfully
accomplished.

With bad year for forage in many places, coupled with many
treatments topping out, and say bees not propolizing good I
would imagine in this instance for sterility, could a
severe problem come about relating to turning the brood
over for wintercarryover, leaving older sickened bees to
succumb and no replacements as the brooding shut down?

Just thinking about what you wrote and then thinking about
year as it went down.....

Respectfully submitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza,Arizona
http://grous.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/



 
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