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zaunreiter
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 Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 3:37 pm Post subject: correlation in winter losses |
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Try to find correlation in international winter losses:
See:
http://immenfreunde.de/forum/download/file.php?id=1480
Does anyone have the offical winter loss rates in the UK? For the last decade? |
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Adam Rose
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From http://www.nationalbeeunit.com/index.cfm?pageid=203 :
Key Points from the 2012-13 Husbandry Survey
• We obtained useful information about beekeeping practices from 1248 beekeepers from over 80 counties across England and Wales.
• The average length of time beekeepers have kept bees is 11.2 years with 11% of beekeepers keeping bees 2 years or less.
• Beekeepers most commonly produced 1-10 kg of honey per colony, whereas 0.9% of beekeepers produced over 50 kg per colony.
• Overall, using internationally recognised calculations from the COLOSS network (http://www.coloss.org/), winter losses from 2012-2013 were calculated as 29.4%.
Can't find good historical data though ... |
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