Joe writes: >Mistakes are made by all beekeepers. and I have made many since 1978 (which was when I first had bees) But these bees have ccd And before you ask, No I can not "prove" my assertion But there have been plenty of absconds over these 5 years, 35+(absconds) And these absconds have been "typical" of cool weather ccd When I got back to Canada (late september) I was/became very sick, after the hospital stay it took 2+ weeks to get back my energy This ate up all of October. If I had been there to treat them then I might have been able to make a difference. I also thought the speed of the one collapse was noteworthy The main problem was being away (from them)for 4 months They were fine when I left, they were all supered up, strong, etc dave *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm