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To: Scythian; Joe 6-pack; ican'tbelieveit; bert; AnAmericanMother

62 posted on 10/01/2008 2:42:35 PM PDT by fanfan (SCC:Canadians have constitutional protection to all opinions, as long as they are based on the facts)

Pesticide kill-offs aren't a new problem. Sevin dust lavishly broadcast around home gardens is the usual bee-killer here.

We pay a courtesy call on all our neighbors within a half mile and politely ask them not to use Sevin. If they already have Sevin on hand, we buy them a less bee-toxic poison (and take them a nice jar of honey in the fall)!

Unlike the situation in the U.S., this kill-off in Germany was linked by time and place and chemical evidence to application of a particular pesticide.

I still think the U.S. die-off was a virus or other communicable disease, because our hive is very isolated with no other bees nearby and we have had no problems. Most of the die-off is occurring in commercial apiaries where there's a lot of drift from hive to hive and a lot of trucking to follow the crop blooms.

68 posted on 10/01/2008 2:48:33 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies Auxiliary, recess appointment))

To: CurlyBill; Joe 6-pack; ican'tbelieveit; bert; AnAmericanMother

We’ve had a request for a Bee ping list.

Who wants it?

:-)

104 posted on 10/01/2008 3:25:26 PM PDT by fanfan (SCC:Canadians have constitutional protection to all opinions, as long as they are based on the facts)

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