Beekeeping Year Survey

[The Honey House]

Please rank the following problems based on your past year of beekeeping.
1- being the worst problem.
9- being no problem at all.
Please use each number from 1-9 only once to rank.

This survey was sent to me by one of the bee magazines and that's the scale they wanted to use. So please try and order them as indicated even if you don't have bears or AFB or beetles.


__ Tracheal Mites
__ Varroa
__ Resistant AFB
__ Chalkbrood
__ Skunks
__ Bears
__ Prices
__ Small hive beetle
__ Queens
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2 Tracheal Mites
1 Varroa
5 Resistant AFB
4 Chalkbrood
7 Skunks
8 Bears
6 Prices
9 Small hive beetle
3 Queens

thanks

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Dave Verville
Fremont, NH USA



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[BULLSEYE BILL]

>Please rank the following problems based on your past year of beekeeping.
1- being the worst problem.
9- being no problem at all.
Please use each number from 1-9 only once to rank.
4__ Tracheal Mites
3__ Varroa
6__ Resistant AFB
5__ Chalkbrood
8__ Skunks
9__ Bears
1__ Prices
7__ Small hive beetle
2__ Queens

This doesn't work very well for me. I dont have any bears, SHB, AFB, and none of the rest have been any trouble either, except for some new queens superceeding.

Bill

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[Daisy]

Varroa here. And deformed wing virus. But the varroa is under control now and the DWV has cleared up considerably.

[Michael Bush]

9 Tracheal Mites
1 Varroa
n/a Resistant AFB
n/a Chalkbrood
n/a Skunks
n/a Bears
5 Prices
n/a Small hive beetle
? Queens (like what? absconding? dying? swarming?)

(I think I figured it out now. I should have read it more carefully)

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[5TR-Apiary]

n/a-Skunks
n/a-Bears
n/a-SH Beetles
n/a-Chalkbrood
n/a-Resistant AFB
9-Queens
4-Varroa
5-Tracheal Mites
6-prices
1-Weather: rain/no time for the bees to get out and eatting their stores!

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[denise_ky]

_9_ Tracheal Mites
__5 Varroa
__9 Resistant AFB
__9 Chalkbrood
__9 Skunks (
__9 Bears
__7 Prices
__9 Small hive beetle
__ 4Queens( not laying, not being accepted,
3 possums

[The Honey House]

I agree that the numbering sequence is a bit
on the odd side.

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[5TR-Apiary]

I edited my 1st post and I deleted this post. Debbie

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[MountainCamp]

8-Skunks
3-Bears (Under Control at this time)
10-SH Beetles
6-Chalkbrood (Have not seen it, but it is around)
7-Resistant AFB (Have not seen it, but it is around)
9-Queens
4-Varroa (Under Control at this time)
5-Tracheal Mites (Under Control at this time)
2-prices
1-Weather: rain/no time for the bees to get out and eatting their stores!

[clintonbemrose]

2 Tracheal Mites
2 Varroa
0 Resistant AFB
0 Chalkbrood
4 Skunks
0 Bears
0 Prices
2 Small hive beetle
1 Queens
we now have the skunks under control
I think that our weather Wet spring and a drought for the past 7 weeks and 1/2 inch rain last Saturday has the goldenrod ready to bloom but we need more to get nector. No extra honey for me so far.
Clint

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Clinton Bemrose
just South of Lansing Michigan

[BILLY BOB]

7- TRACHEAL MITES
8-VARROA
9-RESISTANT AFB
5-CHALKBROOD
9-SKUNKS
9-BEARS
6-PRICES
9-SHB
8-QUEENS

BB