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> >Jerry
> Can you please share some of the "evidence" to back this statement up?


Hi Brian,

You can see Jerry's survey at beealert.blackfoot.net/~beealert/Updated*
Survey*ResultsJune19_2007.pdf.

Look at Figure 4.

Brian, from Jerry's data, and conversation with plenty of beekeepers across
the U.S., it appears to me that CCD, or CCD-like losses are not limited to
large scale migratory operators.

As Jim Fischer keeps trying to make clear, CCD has all the earmarks of a
rapid-acting pathogen.  One would expect such a pathogen to transmit more
readily in large operations, and that does indeed appear to happen.

However, small operations do not appear to be immune in any way.

In general, small operations may have fewer problems, since the bees may
experience less competition for nutritious forage, have less robbing and
drifting, and often lower mite levels.

Randy Oliver

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