Pete says: 
I remember when the reports of CCD first started to come  out. Majority of 
the bees just gone. I thought at the time: What's new about  that? Working 
at the Dyce Lab, we had entire yards that were untreated, in order  to study 
varroa. They would make a great crop of fall honey and then evaporate.  


Sorry to disagree Pete, but obviously your  experience doesn't  match mine:
 
I've run colonies in cages with severe varroa - bees march (not  fly) out 
in mass, die in piles some yards out from the hives.  NEVER  saw any piles 
with CCD  - dispersed to parts unknown.  Our collapsing  CCD colony in an 
observation hive FLEW off.  We've the data quantifying  their exits.  Jerry


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