Hi Lionel & All,

> Where are all of these hives dying? I have not heard of any in my area of
> North Alabama.
>

I think your area experienced this last winter, yea?

I called my queen and package bee supplier I use to bring bees in for me and
others up here just after I read Bobs post referring to these die offs. I asked
him about this and he did say that it is true in the northern California are he
is located in and also added that some beekeeper and almond growers are getting
scared. Seems that the die off scare is also raising the price of pollination
services for almonds. My supplier is not experiencing the massive die offs that
other are, he switched a great number of his colonies over to Russian stock over
three years ago now. At his queen breeders association meeting he last attended
it was mentioned  by a prominent researcher that genetics and varroa tolerance
will what will help in the future. I think there will be more to it than just
that but that is another subject.

 . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
c(((([ , Apiarian, http://takeoff.to/alaskahoney/,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Norlandbeekeepers/ ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ApiarianBreedersGuild/

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