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Date: | Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:32:51 -0300 |
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Thanks for the contributions on this. Still some basic unknowns. A few
years ago I brought some of those chill-coma-ed bees inside and they
dutifully resurrected, and seemed perfectly fine, buzzing energetically
inside a plastic container. I gave them some honey comb to sustain
themselves but the next day they were all uniformly dead. So was their
fate already written, were they indeed pre-destined to die, better off
outside the hive etc? Or had the chill coma done something to fatally harm
their basic processes? That would not be so surprising.
In a NY Bee Wellness webinar from last September, Gard Ortis noted that in
the course of a normal winter (his reference was southern Ontario) about
two thirds of the bees in a colony will die. So we expect dead bees in and
around our hives as a matter of course. Got old, got chilled, got sick,
ran out of *élan vital*, and maybe some went out when they shouldn't have.
We just have to hope that enough are left in the end.
cheers,
Rob Hughes
Upper Kingslcear, NB
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