I'm a small scale beekeeper but bigger than backyard hobbiest. I manage 30-50 hives and raise my own queens with plans to get into the nucleus hive sales game. I've seen first hand what happens at planting time to colonies close to row crop fields. For about a week or until the first rain after planting I have pretty high bee kills of forager population. You get literally piles of dead bees on the landing board and in front of a hive. The effects are lasting but not as drastic after it's rained once and washed the seed treatment dust off everything. I have dead brood (larvae and pupae) get taken out of the hive and dumped in front and the hives that aren't as hygenic (don't do as well cleaning up dead and sick bees and brood) you get disease problems with the dead bees in the hives. The winter survival rates for colonies place near row crops is DRASTICALLY different from those placed in strategic locations on the edges of river bluffs and residential areas. We're talking <10% losses as compared to roughly 50% losses. If you lost 50% of your crops every year because of the actions of your neighbors you'd be pretty ticked off.
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