Deanna wrote:


"Failing that, is it accurate to say that CCD is characterised by:  
 
the presence of a live queen.
the presence of a small number (less than a handful) of young live workers.
the presence of capped brood
the presence of bee bread/honey food stores in the hive. 
the absence of live or dead older house and forager bees.
that in cases where a hive has died out, there is noticably delayed invasion by 
other robbing bees/ants/wax moth (by a number of weeks/months?)"

With that definition, my bees have had CCD twice: one hive in the early 1990s where there was a dozen or so bees, a queen, brood etc and no robing despite it being the wasp season. The second time was about 5 years ago. I rescued the queen for use elsewhere and she did fine.

Chris





 

 

 



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