Our bees died this winter. It seems that many of the bees up here in NE MN did. What is our

[jwirr]

problem - chemicals or too long a winter? Don't know if we are going to replace them but we have a lot invested in equipment.

[handmade34]

1. replace them

we need as many people as possible to encourage bees...

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(I used to have 11 hives {didn't die, had to get rid of them for job} and hope soon to begin again)

[Downwinder]

2. You would think that after three years of colony collapse

someone would find a solution. Wild bees seem to be immune, perhaps you can capture a wild hive.

[earthbot1]

3. sad

sorry to hear about them. Someone two houses down from me, just started keeping some. I have not talked to her about them yet, but am curious.

[kickysnana]

4. Sorry to hear that.

You were outside the worst drought area last summer and you don't have uninterrupted fields of Roundup-able crops. The spring was peculiar but the weather was not the worst it has ever been over the last year. Troubling indeed. Good luck with the redo.

[glinda]

5. I am so sorry.

Spoke to a bee keeper in middle of MN and he lost about a third.