--- On Sun, 3/21/10, Peter L Borst <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Zac Browning, a major beekeeper who lives in Blackfoot, Idaho, prides himself on the care his employees give his 18,000 hives, which includes sheltering them indoors in winter. ...... But when he shipped colonies to the almond fields of California this winter, one-third of the hives were found to be exterminated, most of them empty of foragers.
If Mr. Browning kept his bees inside to over winter and then found one-third of his hives exterminated with no foragers, then he should be able to find those foragers inside his shelter and available to be collected for analysis. Not so?
Mike in LA
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