Randy wrote: > The point is, that the recovery of dinks is amazing me. In most of my > yards, when we moved to almonds, we left one or two colonies that had only > 2-3 frames and that we didn't expect to survive the rest of winter. But > when we returned to those yards this month to restock with nucs, many of > the > expected deadouts were thriving! > > This is just a report, no answers. Just dang curious. One of my strongest hives had a large quantity of dead bees in front of it(measured in quarts) in March here in Alabama....... This happened with about 7 of my some 300 hives in the same time frame. Two or three died but some have bounced back super fast and are top producers...that particular hive being close to # 1 in a yard of (now)about 30 hives. Most of the hives that had dead bees seemed to be in a rough cluster(50 foot circle in a yard approx 1/4 mile wide with about 90 hives overwintered there(see above-was 30 hives) I suspected tracheal but was unable to detect any under a borrowed scope. I coisider operator inexperience a main data point in this diagnosis. John Horton N Alabama **************************************************** * General Information About BEE-L is available at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/default.htm * ****************************************************