> What I don't understand, I guess, is that beekeepers who winter in cold regions
> seem to be reporting that without repeated introductions,  infestations of SHB
> either are no problem, or disappear altogether.
>
> Can anyone explain that?

I cannot, and will go out on a limb and start that the magnitude of
the problem seems to be worsening.  My experience has been to
initially treat SHB as an oddity (although I toasted the first
encounter - flame, not champagne), went a few years without any
encounters, discovered they were back in one yard, worse the year
after, and easily noticable the year after that.  In that yard, their
presence increased to the point that I started using SHB traps (which
as I said, I found to be very inneffietive (or at least lacking of
buggers in the traps).

I have a vague recollection of some studies done that showed the
larvae can survive soil temperatures far below what was originally
estimated.  Continuing the vagueness of my recollection, it may have
been on the MAAREC pages.

Aaron Morris - I think, therefore I bee!
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