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Aleksandar Mihajlovski <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 Jan 2002 05:04:29 -0800
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I waited to see if someone will drop something like
this (since there is beekeepers from New Zealand on
the List):

Two years ago NATO had lunched air strike on
Yugoslavia, which is my the neighbouring country.

In the same time, for approximately 2 weeks, large
part of my country (Macedonia) were under big (I don't
know how big) ozone hole.
This (if not first) was very rare occasion: I remember
that for 15 minutes walking without hat under the sun,
I started to fill headache.

In about same time - for the sake of my neighbours, I
couldn't work my bees because the bees were
unbelievable aggressive. The supers were empty but all
the bee yard was smelling like the best honey flow is
in progress - the mountain meadow plants were in full
blooming.
The reason was not local as I was inclined to think at
that same time, because after that (in autumn), many
beekeepers from all over the country had reported the
same aggressive behaviour in their bees and empty
supers, but... I am only one who speculate that reason
was in extra UV radiation - all others were convinced
that reason was NATO strike (low flight of
helicopters, radiation from bombs and missiles, etc.
etc.)

(...in the same season beekeepers from Yugoslavia
reported that they had one of their best honey years!)

Anyone who had find any correlation/indication between
aggressiveness of bees and ozone holes (extra UV
radiation)?


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Aleksandar Mihajlovski, editor of
Macedonian beekeeping journal: "Melitagora"
Ul. Helsinki 41 a, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Tel./Fax(modem): ++ 389 2 363-424
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Join "Apimak", Macedonian discussion group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apimak

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