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Re: odd winter losses
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Brion Dunbar <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:45:31 -0500
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I saw the inch of dead bees after the double MAQS treatment around the first of September, 2015.  I had about 7% queen loss, lots of small colonies afterward that.  I combined the small ones at the time, so went from 400 to 300 in the fall.  But they continued to struggle and in January I had to do another round of combines.

As I stated at the time, I will NEVER do a double MAQS treatment again.  Yes, temperatures were not above 85 during the few days after treatment.
Brion

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