<Commercial beekeepers with serious losses say their help is not  able to
work long days because of the honey/syrup weight in deadouts. many hives
simply empty of bees. No bees on bottom boards.>

Obviously not CCD, despite having the signs, since you have said many
times its not real, Bob.

However, we saw this in 2006-7, again in 2010, and Randy and I predicted
this would happen again early in the summer of 2012.  One very  conspicuous
common factor - weather.  Also, when CCD was first  reported to the media in
late 2006/early 2007, Dakota beekeepers said they had  experiened this in
2004, and we have had many beekeepers tell us it runs about a  3 year cycle.
Your bees will crash, then the survivors and replacements  will have at
least one really good year, then in the next or following year, the  problem
will re-emerge.

That's certainly not what I'd expect if the problem were simply pesticides,
 why the boom/bust cycle?  and the commonality of weather patterns when the
 big crashes hit?

Jerry

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