At 03:55 PM 10/25/05 -0400, Bill Truesdell wrote:
>Nope. They are here to stay. When I visited other apiaries in Maine they
>were there and those colonies overwintered here.

Well, that is the single most depressing thing I've heard in days. I mostly
see them under my screened bottom board, or walking around on top of the
inner cover. So far they haven't really been a problem though I did lose a
nuc to SHB this summer due to dwindling bee numbers- they couldn't keep
them under control. My SHB arrived in nucs from down south and in some
hives that I picked up from a migratory beekeeper.

I take it Bill that you did not directly import your SHB?

George-

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