An update on recent colony losses in Scotland from a sample survey covering 2006-2008

Gray, Alison and Peterson, Magnus and Teale, Alan (2010) An update on recent colony losses in Scotland from a sample survey covering 2006-2008. Journal of Apicultural Research and Bee World, 49 (1). pp. 129-131. ISSN 1751-2891 (https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.1.49.1.28)

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Abstract

Peterson et al. (2009) reported figures on honey bee colony losses from a postal survey of beekeepers in Scotland carried out in early summer 2006 on behalf of the Executive of the Scottish Beekeepers' Association (SBA). We now provide updated figures on Scottish colony losses and on the reasons for these losses, from a repeat survey in late spring 2008 and covering the period April 2006 to April 2008.