hi
we have three hives and they are just fine.. also one hive in a huge old maple by the barn..
most of the colony collapse disorder is fake..and it isn't the cell phone towers either
it is mostly the junk folks put on their lawn and other pesticides and such
also some of the GM plants are geared to kill insects and they don't know a bee from a weevil..
the folks who are small and mostly working with organic farms are not having the same problem...
a short story
years ago when the mites really were bad we lost 6 hives in a year and it was a couple of years without the bees..my garden did ok but not great..
so i sat under the mother maple and meditated and ask for some help and some bees to be close by and safe...
i swear the very next day..honest... there were bees in the hollow of that maple and they have been there ever since and when they swarm we get them a hive and ask them to stay..they have
never stop believeing in your power to be the change you want to see...
wavin