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Gene,
I have colonies of feral honeybees in a hollow southern red oak and in a
hollow mulberry tree and lots of bees on every nectar flower, and feeding
at any peach with a perforated skin :( (I love the flavor a peach that has
softened on the tree).  Also here in Winston-Salem, NC, there have been at
least 10 calls to the Ag Extension Office for beekeepers to come get
swarms, and on a recent TV news program, beekeepers removed a hive in the
wall of an apartment building; the combs were 5 feet long and 2 feet wide,
estimated 150 lbs of honey.
Jim
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>       I've noticed a lot of Honeybees on my clover this year - far more
>than the past few years - and I don't know of any nearby managed hives.
>I'm thinking they are feral (wild) bees.  Has anyone on the list come
>across any news items about the varroa mite & resistance?  Is no news good
>news?  I was always hopeful that there would be enough honeybees out there
>with natural resistance so that the dire predictions of pollination
>crashes were too pessimistic.
>
>gene
>spears@lmc.edu
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Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC 27040
Hardiness Zone 7A