New incident report
Incident Report Number: 2015-2277
Registrant Reference Number: xx
Registrant Name (Full Legal Name no abbreviations): x
Address: x
City: x
Country: x
Environment
Country: CANADA
Prov / State: NOVA SCOTIA
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Product Name: x
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Terr. Invrtbrt-Honey Bee/Inv.Ter-Abeille
Honey Bee
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Agricultural
Abnormal behavioural effects
Death
There were a total of 8 colonies in the bee yard. There were 7 affected colonies and 1 dead colonies. There were an average of 40 frames of bees, 18 frames of brood, and 20 frames of pollen and honey. The following pests were present in the affected bee yard in the past year; varroa mite. Additional food sources provided to the bees included sugar syrup and pollen supplement (global 15% real pollen). In the begnning of Sept, Mite Away Quick Strips was applied at a rate of 2 strips to the hives to treat mites. At the end of Sept the antibotic fumagillian-B was applied to the hives at rate of 1 tsp of sugar syrup for 2g/colony, to treat nosema. Bees were actively foraging when questionnaire being filled out and after the adverse effects there was a noticeable decline in foraging. There were >2000 dead bees observed outside of each hive. no adult, brood or queen symptoms observed. Vrgin queen seen, did not observe old queen. The weather at the time of the incident was sunny. the bee incident occurred approx. 60 ft away from the hiv, the dead bees belonged to a swarm. The owner of the property noticed a small pile of bees when she left for work in the morning. By the end of the work day. The pile had become substantially bigger. the inspector was contacted and he collected as many bees as possible. when the inspector arrived, he observed another bunch of bees adjacent to the dead pile. He collected them in a hive and they are doing well and seem healthy. Samples of dead bees taken had positive detects for clothianidin.
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