Jerry writes:
Now, things that I do know from our data that are associated with
supercedure:
1) Use of chemicals to drive bees from honey supers
2) Addition of lots of empty supers during a nectar flow
3) Environmental stressors - lack of space, over-heating, agri- and
industrial chemicals inside the hive (volatiles in the air inside the hive)
and (this is a guess, the others are based on data - mite density).
Do these increase or decrease supercedure? How much?
pb