allen dick wrote:
>
> I really recommend a careful reading of all the articles at
>
> http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/ColonyCollapseDisorder.html 
Which is why I asked the question, since it appears that many are 
linking "normal" winter kills with CCD, as noted by several recent posts.

The best and most comprehensive article is the Fall Dwindle disease talk 
which lists the observations. There does not appear to be a link, but 
maybe there is something new that says there is.

I hate to say it, but many who are saying their colonies died this 
winter from CCD are probably wrong. Two entirely different critters. As 
I noted before, too many beekeepers do not know what they are looking at 
when it comes to dead-outs and disease. There are just too many things 
that cause winter kills.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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