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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 10365" data-attributes="member: 207">It's wet and muggy here. We had a reasonable season but the bees have done nothing in the last six weeks. I am now seeing hives collapsing from deformed wings virus when they have little or no varoa and are five weeks into the treatment.  Many hives are not laying at all. A few have already died.Even with the bees have not been badly affected by viruses they are lacking in something and the only thing they are interested in doing is robbing. I don't think I can remember seeing bees as keen to rob as they are at the moment. I am currently feeding sugar because if I don't get them breeding they will all fail survive the winter but even with every precaution I know to prevent robbing getting out of hand I know that I will lose some hives.It's a bit depressing but is not as bad as it is further north and we can in general still access our hives.</blockquote>

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