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Incident Report Number: 2015-2263
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Country: CANADA
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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 7 colonies in the bee yard. There were 3 affected colonies. There were an average of 5 to 7 frames of bees, 3 to 4 frames of brood 6 to 8 in circle. Hives not apart, in dead outs old pollen still in frames, new pollen heavy. no pests in the past year (some viral in spring-normal). Additional food sources provided to the bees included; Fall: Sugar syrup and pollen substitute (icing and feed bees) all summer, April 10 or earlier: Sugar syrup, Mar 11: Bakers dried-invert sugar feed bee as pollen substitute. In midsummer, Mite Away Quick Strips were applied to the hives. In fall 2013 the antibotic Oxytetracycline was applied to the hives by adding to icing suger in the fall. Bees were Actively foraging on Saturday and one dead bee had pollne on legs. There were 10-15 (on/off) dead bees observed outside of each hive. Adult bee symptoms included shaking/trembling/twitiching, crawling,. Additionally, they were partially paralyzed. No brood or queen symptoms observed. The weather at the time of the incident was sunny, overcast, temperature was 10-20 C. The last rain event occurred on 2014-04-22. Beekeeper believes Neonics caused the incident. old pollen in dead - out (new frames), dark pollen, 2 frames per hivelike this, queen issues? -Bees somewhat aggressive (poor weather?) , 5 frames of bees per hive, brood ok, somewhat spotty, no mite wash, too windy/cold -feed bee - pea meal, high protein, pollen supplement, mixed with icing sugar. Sample of dead bees taken had positive detects for imidacloprid. Samples of comb pollen taken from affected hive had no detected active ingredients.
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