Full 🕓Time 🐝🐝Beekeeper🐝 here: We send in ♻️state and 👉👉nationally👈👈🏧💹💲sponsored💲 surveys every year to help💁 track👣 losses😥😥. The PA🎤 State 🐝Beekeepers🐝🐝 ran 💨 a 🅰️ survey last year🌍🌎🌏, along with National 🌿🌾🌾Agricultural🌲🌳 Statistical❇️✳️ Service (NASS) and The 🐝🐝Bee🐝 Informed Partnership😂😂 (BIP). These surveys 📕📋usually come💦💦 in the form of "How many colonies💂💂 did you 🆕start🆕 with at X time🕖 of year? How many🙀 did you have🈶 by Y Time👀👀 of year?" This 🆘helps🆘 us🇺🇲 determine😉 if we are losing😰😰😰 ➕more➕ bees🍯 in the winter❄️ (cold 😑being😑 the main 👿stressor) or, say, in the 🏄summer🏄 (parasitic🐜 mites🐜🐞 being😑 the 👮suspected👮 main stressor). The main ⚠️issue⚠️⚠️ with these surveys is that they are 😟voluntary😧😦. I believe PA🎤 🈶had 🈶 1️⃣one 1️⃣ of the 🌟🔥best✨ turn outs at.20% response. We also require you to ®©™register®️💯✔️ your colonies🚸 here📍📍 whether you 🈶have🈶🈶 1🕜 or 🔟10 🔟,001 hives. Since that covers📔 the majority of 🐝🐝beekeepers🐝 in the state🌷🌸, the state inspectors👮👮👷 🈶have🈶 been asking🙏 the questions❔ directly at each apiary they inspect. The only problem⚠️ is that the budget only has🈶 enough 👛money👛👛 to pay for 7🕢 state apiary inspectors, so🆘 there is no👎👎 way↕️ they can get🉐 to every 🐝🐝🐯beekeeper every year. Relevent Article regarding National Surveys Wild colonies are much ➕more ➕ difficult to asses for obvious reasons. I can say anecdotally that the 🍯honey🍯 bee🍯 colonies we remove❌ from houses🚪 and trees🎄 tend to do much better🎰 than the ones1️⃣ we purchase.
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