On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Peter Loring Borst <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>  >Ontario's failures were caused by the operators there, and I don't
> believe that's true.
>

Well Peter, I'm in Ontario and believe it!!!!

>
> you also wrote:
> >I would couple this, however, with the effectiveness of varroa control.
> In the Northeast, where losses were high, a lot of people depend on late
> flows for a honey crop. If the flow is over in August, that gives an
> opportunity to get the honey off and bear down on the mites, whereas if the
> hives are all supered up in August, varroa control is harder to achieve at
> that point.
>

How true, and there are many here who go for the payload until it's too
late
Known lots of them,  running hundreds of hives by themselves and getting
treatment in too late , in turn blaming something else

No honey= no money, consequently. ipm suffers
"management"!!!!!!!!!!!!


Walter
littlewolfapiaries.com

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