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From: Pollinator@sc.rr.com<BR>To: beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com<BR>Sent:
1/31/2011 6:28:07 P.M. Pacific Standard Time<BR>Subj: [beemonitoring] Re: number
of US honey bee hives used strictly for pollination?<BR></DIV>
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<P><BR><BR>--- In <A title=mailto:beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com href="mailto:beemonitoring%40yahoogroups.com">beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com</A>,
Doug Yanega <dyanega@...> wrote:<BR>><BR>> I'm having some trouble
tracking down a firm estimate of the number <BR>> of honey bee hives in the
US that are used solely for pollination and <BR>> NOT for honey production
(the number for honey production was 2.44 <BR>> million hives in 2008, so
that figure is solid and citable). Does <BR>> anyone know a good,
authoritative source for a nation-wide figure?<BR><BR>I doubt such a number
exists. The ag censuses are taken at the state level.<BR><BR>I filled out many
a form for the ag census over the years. At one <BR>point in early summer, I
figured I had 1300 hives, of which only <BR>about 200 were used for honey
prouction. This is not a major honey <BR>producing area.<BR><BR>Thus my bees
were always undercounted, because they only counted the <BR>ones used for
honey production. I pointed this out on several <BR>occasions to the ag
department officials, but never saw any <BR>indication of any change in the
census.<BR><BR>My pollination bees generally did at least two pollinations per
<BR>season, some did three. Do you count each pollination, or?<BR><BR>Another
item, some were used for queen rearing in the spring, then <BR>generally
either given a queen or more likely merged back into some <BR>nucs to build
them up quickly.<BR><BR>Even beyond this, the number of hives can vary quite a
bit throughout <BR>the year and depends on how they are counted. I have little
<BR>confidence in the USDA's "solid and citable" figure.<BR><BR>In the fall, I
would generally "take my winter losses early" and <BR>combine weak or
queenless hives with strong ones. After a summer of <BR>pesticide hits, I
sometimes had to combine three or four.<BR><BR>If you asked me how many hives
I had, would you want to know: how <BR>many after I made up 400 nucs in late
spring, how many I had left <BR>after the cotton spray season, or how many I
had late in the winter?<BR><BR>Any real number for any purpose is probably
closely related to the <BR>number of brood boxes with usable comb. A beekeeper
has to fill these <BR>at least for a portion of each year, or lose the comb to
wax worms, <BR>and once lost, they are usually more trouble to restore than to
get <BR>new ones. And that figure is generally known only to the
beekeeper.<BR><BR>Dave Green<BR>Retired SC beekeeper<BR><A title=http://pollinator.com/blog/ href="http://pollinator.com/blog/">http://pollinator.com/blog/</A><BR><BR></P></DIV><!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStart|**|-~-->
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