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Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:28:00 -0400
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Medhat Nasr wrote:

>I will be interested to know the difference. I am looking at dead hives in
>Alberta. They are considered winter mortality. I am not sure if they can
>be classified as CCD or high classical winter mortality. Bees even if they
>suffer from the CCD they would not have the proper temperature to leave
>their hives and die somewhere else. In our case bees did not leave the
>hives, a lots of food, good mite control with legal chemicals, and combs
>very much new, but they died inside the hives.

This is almost to the letter what I was going to write. Just goes to show,
if yo wait a while someone else will say what you thought. Obviously, when
the bees were flying off and dying in the almonds in California, bees were
dying in the north but couldn't fly off to do it.

pb

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