CL:  How could you think it doesn't???


To me the issue is that a beekeeper with many thousands of hives loses a MAJORITY of them all at once. That event is like a tsunami, or a "blizzard of the century" (Jonas?)...it doesn't happen very often.  What can you compare such an event to, other than a similar one that was historic? Based on the definition that Randy has for "master beekeeper", someone like Brett Adee shouldn't lose tens of thousands of hives in a short period of time. The article referenced that catastrophe and its timing.

There are no big ag concerns around here where Hackenberg summers his bees.....a couple of large dairies with many acres of corn and soy, yes. Maybe his bees experienced a delayed collapse after an event that happened prior to their arrival in upstate NY? They bring all their other pests with them. I get new crops of SHB every June, right on schedule with the arrival of the migratory beekeepers, including Hackenberg, so maybe they brought along whatever scourge causes CCD.


Christina


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