Two articles today on winter bee losses in England. Does anyone have a link to the data? Up here our losses have been low and most of them could be put down to lack of feeding or neglect. The more competent beekeepers I have spoken to here have suffered no losses but I must admit most of our colonies were very weak this spring. I find it hard to believe that isolation starvation was one of the main causes and I wonder if a lot of it was down to a lack of autumn feeding. By the way Doris is blaming neonics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22861651
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...ter?CMP=twt_gu
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