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

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