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<Commercial beekeepers with serious losses say their help is not able to
work long days because of the honey/syrup weight in deadouts. many hives
simply empty of bees. No bees on bottom boards.>
Obviously not CCD, despite having the signs, since you have said many
times its not real, Bob.
However, we saw this in 2006-7, again in 2010, and Randy and I predicted
this would happen again early in the summer of 2012. One very conspicuous
common factor - weather. Also, when CCD was first reported to the media in
late 2006/early 2007, Dakota beekeepers said they had experiened this in
2004, and we have had many beekeepers tell us it runs about a 3 year cycle.
Your bees will crash, then the survivors and replacements will have at
least one really good year, then in the next or following year, the problem
will re-emerge.
That's certainly not what I'd expect if the problem were simply pesticides,
why the boom/bust cycle? and the commonality of weather patterns when the
big crashes hit?
Jerry
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