Charlie described the reality quite well.
IMHO, it would be far better for each State or Provincial Apiculturalist to
mark a cross section of several hundred colonies each spring across an
arbitrarily-assigned group of representative beekeepers, and then record
actual data (rather than anecdotal survey results from memory) for those
marked colonies.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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