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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 12288" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>I think the purpose is partly just for interest. But the more important purpose is to see if any trends are developing such as say, increasing losses, or whatever, that may indicate a problem requiring government intervention or funding.</p><p></p><p>So for example, let's say it was discovered that varroa are becoming a way more serious problem than in the past, the evidence from the survey could be used to lobby government for assistance.</p><p></p><p>I will agree with Tristan that (in my view anyway), some of the questions could be worded better, or at least a few more multiple choice answers provided. I filled the survey in this year and there were a couple of questions I was not able to answer accurately because no tick box was given that had the right answer for me.</p><p></p><p>The other thing is how to define losses and that is not clearly explained. There's a lot, if not most, commercial beekeepers who go to a yard in spring and find some deadouts. But no worries, come swarming time they split hives into them to prevent swarming, and end up with the same amount of hives they had previously. So far as they are concerned they had no losses. Or if they do decide to say they had losses they are not quite sure what they were, they just split into any available empty hives. So the answer would be a guess. Most commercial beekeepers would not even feel a 10% loss cos at swarming time they need somewhere to put the excess bees and a 10% loss will be made up without hardly thinking about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 12288, member: 13"] I think the purpose is partly just for interest. But the more important purpose is to see if any trends are developing such as say, increasing losses, or whatever, that may indicate a problem requiring government intervention or funding. So for example, let's say it was discovered that varroa are becoming a way more serious problem than in the past, the evidence from the survey could be used to lobby government for assistance. I will agree with Tristan that (in my view anyway), some of the questions could be worded better, or at least a few more multiple choice answers provided. I filled the survey in this year and there were a couple of questions I was not able to answer accurately because no tick box was given that had the right answer for me. The other thing is how to define losses and that is not clearly explained. There's a lot, if not most, commercial beekeepers who go to a yard in spring and find some deadouts. But no worries, come swarming time they split hives into them to prevent swarming, and end up with the same amount of hives they had previously. So far as they are concerned they had no losses. Or if they do decide to say they had losses they are not quite sure what they were, they just split into any available empty hives. So the answer would be a guess. Most commercial beekeepers would not even feel a 10% loss cos at swarming time they need somewhere to put the excess bees and a 10% loss will be made up without hardly thinking about it. [/QUOTE]
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