Did the beekeeper reporting queen loss after MAQS have any hives not treated to compare to?  It might not be the treatment.

I have seen an incredible queen loss (actually supersedure and swarming) in my hives which have not been treated this spring.  Yesterday I tried to move a batch of queen cells out of one hive (a virgin appeared to be eating them) and into another.  I had to open 5 hives before I found one that had a queen and did not have swarm cells.

I would say that over half of my hives that had a queen produced any time last year are now queenless.  Most of the queens were not what I would consider old, as they were raised in September.  In retrospect I should have split them all in half and requeened both halves right after almonds.  Oh well.



On 4/26/2011 9:00 PM, BEE-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Mite Away Quick Strips

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