What do you make of this?

interesting theory. what do you make of this though? a holding yard is where huge numbers of bees are held temporarily before they are used to pollinate massive crop areas like almond trees orchards. colony collapse will move through a holding yard, just sweep right through it and take up to 80% of all the bees.


http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/bees/colony-collapse-di...


“We saw CCD move through holding yards, from one end to the other as early as December, 2006. We've been all over the U.S. looking at CCD and have often seen it move through holding yards and apiaries.

“We've also seen it (CCD) move from bees brought in (to a holding yard) from one state, to bees (that did not have CCD) that came from another state – when the introduced bee colonies were set down beside colonies already in the receiving state's beeyard. Again, we first saw this in 2006 and have seen it happen over and over – put CCD colonies in a yard with non-CCD colonies, and you are likely to see many of them collapse.

“Keep in mind, we DO NOT see every colony in a CCD beeyard collapse, but we see a few, then more, until only a few are left. In some cases, it takes them all out, but more often, it will take out 50-80% of the colonies in an apiary before it runs its course. In some cases, the beekeeper has picked up the survivors from several beeyards, placed them all in a common (holding) yard. Depending on whether these are 'survivors' or are still collapsing, the next visit is likely to show one of two extremes – colonies coming back, or all of them dead.” Tweet