Pete says:
I remember when the reports of CCD first started to come out. Majority of
the bees just gone. I thought at the time: What's new about that? Working
at the Dyce Lab, we had entire yards that were untreated, in order to study
varroa. They would make a great crop of fall honey and then evaporate.
Sorry to disagree Pete, but obviously your experience doesn't match mine:
I've run colonies in cages with severe varroa - bees march (not fly) out
in mass, die in piles some yards out from the hives. NEVER saw any piles
with CCD - dispersed to parts unknown. Our collapsing CCD colony in an
observation hive FLEW off. We've the data quantifying their exits. Jerry
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