Bob Harrison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:I have long kept quiet on the CCD issue as I felt all research on honey bees would benefit the industry but I so far have not spoke with a beekeeper which had a large number of hives which fits the CCD description of 7-8 frames of brood and missing bees. 


Bob,  One of the listed symptoms of CCD was the lack of any invasive insects (wax moth and/or small hive beetle) invading the now defenseless hives for at least one week if not two.  Have you heard any references to that condition?  Secondly, from what I have heard, any new bee colonies placed into these affected hives have also seemed to have perished.  Have you come across that situation?

Mike in LA

       
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