> HOWEVER:
> When looking back at these Dakota hives you see these hives ( with
> problems)
> many times have been in around 4-5 pollinations involving pesticides &
> fungicides before dropped in the Dakotas.
> .
> ONE POSSIBLE HYPOTHESIS;
> contaminated pollen ( non lethal amounts) has been collected while in these
> pollinations AND over the summer the bees being fed the pollen suffer.
>
>
Might want to look at the pesticides used on almonds. I believe they are
systemic so your hypothesis has merit.


> New hypothesis:
> One new hypothesis today is weather and humidify. I raised this issue the
> first time I looked at the CCD survey.
>

I also have thought along those lines as it would also answer past major bee
losses. Fungal pathogens would be very suspect with climate. Plus, they were
implicated in earlier (decades ago) die-offs, but never confirmed. The
die-offs  were always spring and fall problems, just like now.

As an aside. I checked one of my colonies and there were no bees. So if I
had not checked it in the fall and saw it was well on the way to death, I
could call it CCD symptoms, but it was just lousy beekeeping on my part- bad
manipulation of deeps and application of Apilife. Killed the queen.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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