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To: Bonefish who wrote (720936)6/12/2013 10:26:25 PM
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Hi Bonefish; The average person knows nothing about bees and accepts what the government tells them without any skepticism. Bees are not important to the average person and to environmentalists, the story forms a convenient story to explain why their belief system is right. The truth doesn't matter to the public because bees are not a part of their lives.

Colony collapse happens during overwintering. The solution I linked in is to simply not expect your bees to over winter. You completely avoid needing to medicate them if you do this. Another solution is to medicate the hell out of your bees. But then you lose the ability to think of yourself as an "organic environmentalist". The problem is that people want to have their cake and eat it too.

If you look at the crappy bee hives people use to hold their bees the reason they don't overwinter is pretty obvious. Natural place that bees choose for themselves are a lot more comfortable.

And the annual migration to California means that bee diseases are instantly spread all over the country. Similar things happen in other countries that use bees to pollinate. Bees would be a lot healthier if they didn't go to massive bee conventions. Note that diseased bees do not always manage to find their way back to their own hive. Sometimes they go back to another hive. If you want to read verifiable experts telling you the same thing do some research. You can start here on the method that varroa mites use to spread between hives:

The varroa mite, Varroa jacobsoni, is considered by many to be the most serious malady of honey bees. It now occurs nearly worldwide. This external parasite feeds on the hemolymph (blood) of adult bees, larvae, and pupae. Heavy parasitism results in heavy bee mortality and subsequent weakening of the colony and can lead to colony death.
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We do not know precisely how varroa mites spread so rapidly. We do know that these mites can be spread by the movement of honey bee colonies (migratory beekeeping), the shipment of queens and package bees, and the movement of colonies for pollination rentals. Beekeepers probably spread an infestation from one colony to another through normal apiary manipulations. Infestations also are spread as a result of drifting (especially drifting drones) from one apiary to another and swarming bees.
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agdev.anr.udel.edu

In other words, colony collapse disorder is contributed to by the almond crop.

When spring starts and the bees start making new bees it's easy to duplicate hives. If you split a hive into two pieces, the one without the queen will raise some of its own bees to be new queens. The public doesn't know this. When the public reads that "1/3 of the hives didn't survive the winter", the public imagines that those bees were not replaced. In fact the beekeepers split their hives or order nucs and fill those hives out. So at the end of the season, the bee population is always always always back up to normal. Colony collapse disorder effects the bee population in early spring only.

-- Carl

P.S. I don't give out information about myself on SI. You can verify the truth of what I've said by doing your own research.
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