Bee mortality
I hear from a lot of people that they're leery
of trying to keep bees because of Colony Collapse Disorder, so I was
intrigued when our teacher yesterday explained that only about 10% of
hive death in Virginia is due to CCD. On the other hand, he says
that about 30% of new hives don't survive their first winter, due to
factors including disease and lack of food reserves. (That makes
CCD responsible for the death of a measly 3% of Virginia's new hives
each year, in case you're having trouble with the math.)
Of course, you
can counteract some of the non-CCD factors....
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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