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Subject:	dead bee trap
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Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2022 20:12:49 -0500
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I installed a couple of packages of bees in my apiary last weekend and chose to put a dead bee trap just off the landing board (with the entrance reduced to about an inch).  I have never done this with a newly installed colony before.  I expected to find undertaker bees removing bees that died in transit.  To my surprise by Wednesday there were a dozen or so dead bees in each trap (among the other bodies) with bright yellow pollen in their baskets.  They must have died after a foraging expedition.  My curiosity is up.  I have been pondering the significance of this.  I look to the group for their thought.  Significant... or not.  Telling or not?  Thanks in advance.

Larry Krengel
42 north 88 west

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