Hello Dave, Long time. As I understood it, Dave H. moved his bees from blueberries in Me north to clover or alfalfa somewhere on the Canadian border. Could there have been a possibility of infection by border crossing bees? Then he regrouped in Pa. and made up 4 frame nucs which he moved south to Fl. in Oct to build on Brazilian peppers. When he checked them they were dying but I don't know when he did the check. Dick Marron *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm