Dear Beekeeper,
A working group of the international research network COLOSS has prepared a survey to study winter losses of bee colonies and identify their causes. The survey is performed in many countries, allowing comparisons between them, and will help identify regional differences in losses along with the factors behind them.
Please, answer the questions to the best of your knowledge. If you don't have exact numbers, it is better that you give an approximate answer rather than not answering at all. Notice that questions marked with (*) need to be filled in to be able to move forward in the survey. Use the information about the situation around 1st May. We know there are many differences between different areas in Norway: in some places bees are already out and about in March / April whereas in other places this will not happen until almost June. However, we need to collect data in a standardized way, and therefore we use 1st May as a reference.
If the website with the survey does not work properly, please try deleting the recent history on your browser (for example, for the last hour or the last day) and try again.
Due to security reasons, the survey will be closed after 1 hour. We encourage you to use the help document that you can download, print out and take with you to your apiary. This will make it easier to remember, until you can answer the survey online. You can find the help document
here.
At the end of the survey you will be able to print out a copy of your answers or save them as a PDF. You can use this as documentation about your own beekeeping.
Your personal information will not be provided to any third party, to protect your privacy.
The survey will be open until 31st May.
Thanks! Your cooperation is much appreciated.
Greetings,
Linn Fenna Groeneveld
Norges Birøkterlag
linn@norbi.no
There are 20 questions in this survey.
