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Date: | Thu, 13 Oct 1994 11:58:01 AEST+1000 |
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> Any one recognize these symptoms? Could the wasps be to blame? I find
> that unlikely since the stores were still intact. Yet the wasps have
> been thickest in memory. Another irony is that I hung wasp traps
> (Rescue) in front of the 2 hives that were lost. Any likely the bees
> were offended and left, or that more wasps were attracted to the hives?
Just guessing here, but if there is any insecticide associated wit
hthe wasp traps, that may have scared the bees away. I once had a
similar experience, where the entire swarm left, after a single comb
that had come into contact with another that had had either kero or
insecticide on it. Before this, it was a good strong healthy hive.
I tried to put them back into the same box twice. It workd the third
time, after I took out the offending comb. (I actualy saw them
leave...)
Could be right, could be way off.
Adrian.
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