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The Bee Informed Partnership. Utilizing beekeepers real world experiences to help solve beekeepers real world problems. Three Premises of Bee Informed. Unprecedented complex challenges Some of the answers are out there Nobody listens to anyone. 33%.
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The Bee Informed Partnership Utilizing beekeepers real world experiences to help solve beekeepers real world problems
Three Premises of Bee Informed • Unprecedented complex challenges • Some of the answers are out there • Nobody listens to anyone
Distribution of Losses in Commercial Operations (>500 colonies) 2009-2010 Proportion of loss
Distribution of Losses in Commercial Operations (>500 colonies) 2009-2010 25% lost more than 53% of their operation 25% lost fewer than 14 % of their operation
Value of lost colonies • Reduce top 25% losses by ½ • 86,000 colonies saved in survey population • Represents $1.29 million in almond rental fees/year • National losses would drop from 34.4% to 19.3%
Extension model that engages stakeholder empowerment (Vannasou 2006).
Database Management Surveys and on the ground diagnostic testing National historic and ongoing diagnostic data YOU! The Bee Informed Partnership www.beeinformed.org
Backyard = 2,895 Sideline = 111 Commercial = 44
Carbohydrate Feeding N=2,771
Fed Frames of Honey N=751
Database Management Surveys and on the ground diagnostic testing National historic and ongoing diagnostic data YOU! The Bee Informed Partnership www.beeinformed.org
Live Bee Sample Report • IAPV at 7% • DWV at 72% • BQCV at 52% • ABPV at 3.4%