Interesting thought.
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I notice that poly hive's blog off May 9th reported
Poor matings are blamedI heard last night that there are massive losses amongst the commercial bee men in Scotland.
Colonies are still dying off from the winter weather and losses of over 90% were quoted.
which suggests that at least 90% of all colonies on at least one bee farm experienced queen replacement with inefficiently mated queens.It is the colonies which were headed by the queens mated or rather not properly mated in 2012 that are failing.
Incredible figures.
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