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TheFuzz:
I have an opportunity of moving some beehives to a location that is surrounded in every direction by crop land. The whole area is surrounded by paddocks that farmers are using to grow various crops. I saw wheat, canola, green beans, I'm sure a lot more.

There's also eucalyptus trees and some other native flowers in the scrub along the roads, but there isn't a lot of that. The region has an annual rainfall of 50mm, which is a little higher than some other places. I don't know about other flowers but I know eucalyptus flowers are largely dependent on good rainfall to produce nectar.

I'm wondering if this sounds like it might be a good apiary location for bees, or is relying on large fields of monoculture plants a bad idea? Could the pesticides that the farmers be harmful for the bees health?

Bee North:
Hi Fuzz
Mate sounds like a gamble without more details.

Yes pesticides and herbicides are dangerous. Certain crops wont offer much while others do for a period when flowering.

Your fallback are the trees if you have enough of them.

Cant offer much more on the information provided.

Did you get on top of the dying bees at your house?

TheFuzz:
I took a satellite image showing what's within 5km of the area:

https://postimg.cc/gallery/vcPJmXg

I've covered up the light that might have been killing bees at that house.

Bee North:
Looks a bit scary for your bees to me.

TheFuzz:
Why is that?

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