Hello Melanie & All,

Welcome to the list and Happy thanksgiving! I have not seen you post before
but maybe I missed your former posts.

The value of making fall nucs has never been not agreed as a good thing the
discussion has always been about implementation. Keep us updated on your
success!

>Tres cool. I firmly believe that this is a practice worth becoming
>"trendy". We have experimented ourselves with overwintering nucs in
>southern and northern New Mexico-USA.

My question involves the recent discussion on Mexican hives. You list
Northern and southern New Mexico ( an area I am very familiar with) as your
nuc areas. Southern is basically on the Old Mexico border.

My question is:
Please share with a few on the list your experience with AHB and how you
manage to raise queens in an area of total Africanized bees?

I think they need hearing from those which keep bees in those areas.

another subject and I should have started a new thread rereading. Sorry!

I spoke to a beekeeper keeping bees in Texas yesterday and he said AHB is
almost a non issue these days.

He reported an interesting last week observation:
Beekeepers are reporting in Texas that many bees which look fine will fly
out to die WHEN FED. Each time the bees are fed the bees can be found dead
( next 24 hours) on the sand around the hive and out say 20 feet.

The first thought was nosema issues so beekeepers went to Dadant in Texas
for fumigillin. Dadant is now out of fumigillin but my friend found some and
fed the bees.

Any thoughts Jerry or randy?

The beekeeper did not report vast numbers of bees dead in the feeders which
is the most common sign I see of high levels of nosema these days. Also his
bees are TAKING the feed . What I see ( and others) is bees going off feed.

Sincerely,
Bob Harrison

Missouri based beekeeper

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