On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:11 AM, richard drutchas <
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> Funny you guys should be talking about this I am now in the middle of what
> could be a huge die off. We took off a poor crop in August and slapped on
> the new mite strips. The mites where under control, nice populations going
> into the fall. Not much of a fall flow to speak of, it just didn't happen. I
> go back in Sept. to check on things, the hives are light but not starving,
> looks like the summer bees have died but still bees all the way across and
> the drones are being corralled and kicked out. Now the scary part is that I
> start looking into some hives and I'm not seeing any new brood and no eggs.
> I think maybe the acid killed my queens so I dig in and I'm finding small
> queens running around aimlessly looking like they haven't been fed for a
> month. A new beekeeper down the road who hadn't treated calls me for some
> queens. Not seeing eggs she thinks she is queenless. Same thing small shut
> down queens, so it wasn't the acid but the season. I fed and slapped on some
> pollen sub. We've had a warm fall with a late frost but I don't think those
> queens will do it. Anybody else finding the same thing?
>
>

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