It's great to have two beekeepers in the room, or people who are attached to that industry, because we were very interested in it.
A term that was being used in our previous study was “Internet science”. There are a lot of opinions about bees out there, and there are some things in the States that are different from Canada. One of the areas where we found a great difference was in overwintering nutrition.
I represent Guelph, and at the University of Guelph a lot of scientists have been looking into nutrition as a way of increasing the success rate over winter. The number we had in our last report was a 14% loss over winter, not 25%, so there will be some differences across Canada.
Could you comment on overwintering as a bigger problem or a lesser problem from what you're seeing in relation to the seed treatments?