Earlier you stated ‘the cause’ as a 1) ‘lack of fall flow‘.  And now you add
> an additional cause of another reason being that they were 2) ‘Russian
> bees‘, (Which by stating this as an undesirable characteristic of the
> Russians, is noting that Russians are NOT suited for this type of
> environmental stress of fall nectar dearth).


A poor fall nectar flow will do in just about any bees up here. We have had
a couple of bad falls and the losses have shown that.

The bees that does well in an area is not universally adaptable to any poor
nectar flow at critical periods unless the periods are consistent, and since
when has the weather been that. Our normal dry period is August, and often
supers are drawn dry.

I will let Mike speak to the Russians since I have no experience with them.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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