>This observation -- the fact that feeding crushed bees to colonies 
causes collapse -- is to me a very important observation.

Most who have experience with ccd 
would say that the boxes are  infectious too,
just not as fast
I am of this opinion too

Now that I am 3 or 4 generations in,
the disease is not so severe

For example I only lost 2/9 last winter.
Those bees were not inspected for 9+ months

I expected to see bear damage, (the remote yard)
there was a bear maybe, the fence was knocked down
It took 10M of fence and 2 insulators,
the hives were all standing
1VG, 1F, 1P,  2 deadouts.  Looked like ccd
In August, both those hives were good
But that yard had 100% loss in 2007
I thought that yard only had 4 hives, 
but the queen (in the surprise) was unmarked
????

Probably not a prion
Why?  Because Vitamin C is a treatment?
And it only works well on virus.

so Bob, there is an answer

dave

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