Elsewhere in this issue I discuss the perpetual challenge beekeepers have when dealing with small, weak colonies. Frequently, diseases and poor queens are the causes, but other common reasons for good hives going bad can be cataclysmic - something real bad abruptly happens to good hives. Several years ago, a phone caller told me that one of my hives was several miles out of town on an old airstrip and, "bees are flying all over." I could not make any sense of the conversation. I was not missing a colony and I certainly had no bees on that side of town. The caller insisted saying that I had branded equipment with my name on it at the crime scene; otherwise how would he have gotten my name.
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