More information about situation in Vojvodina - North of Serbia about bee 
losses.

I've received confirmation about bee losses on sunflower fields, but there 
are some details.
Beekeepers that moved their bees after sunflower pasture to some other minor 
pastures, or fed their bees with lot of sugar syrup didn't have such big 
losses.

A beekeper who lost about 70% colonies noticed that alive colonies had 
mostly black locust honey around, not sunflower honey.

One famous beekeeper Vladimir Hunjadi from Novi Sad lost almost all of his 
150 colonies on two beehouses - on a truck with a trailer.
But fortunatelly he has about 100 nucs moved to the Western part of Serbia 
(near Ljubovija) during or after black locust pasture, I don't know exactly 
when. Nucs are alive.
As I know he makes nucs every year, at the beginning of black locust 
pasture, in a special way, to reduce swarming. So nucs were not on sunflower 
pasture.

regards
Predrag 

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