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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 16:19:00
GMT This message was from ANDY
NACHBAUR to ALL Spring is here in the central valley of California. The almonds are coming into full bloom and the air is full of bees and the heavy aroma of almond pollen. Beekeepers are finishing up on movement of bees into the almonds and the weather has warmed up to the mid 70's. The condition of the bees placed
in the almonds is better then the last few years due to better
pasture conditions last fall. As always some notable severe losses
due to winter dwindling was experienced by a good number of beekeepers.
In some extreme cases the loss approached 75%, and was not thought
to be caused by starvation, pests, or pesticides. As far as I
know no investigation into these losses is ongoing or planned.
Beekeeping is a political incorrect endeavor in The only effort from our government
services is to put out a continuing warning that the "killer"
bees will arrive here any moment, but not to worry. Well someone
should tell them the dreaded Afro bees have been part of the
gene pool here for many years maybe 90 years or more, and the
only difference between the areas that are declared to have Afro
bees is the placement of traps, or the looking for them. In effect
where ever the government looks for the dreaded Afro bees they
are soon found. The almonds require more bees then can be supported
year around in California, so we have 500,000+ hives in the almonds
that were in other states last summer. Thousands of these hives
come from Texas, Arizona, and other areas that are known to be
inhabited by ttul Andy- |