Hello All,

> "tens of thousands of hives crashing" was the subject line that
> dominated BEE-L's message boards through much of October & early >
November"

The above is a direct quote from the January 2005 issue of Bee Culture
(pg.22).
The sentance starts the excellent article by Dewayne Lumpkin named "White
Knuckling it through a winter with varroa"

Allen said:
Again, I did not count, but, by any measure, this topic hardly seemed to
have dominated BEE-L.

Apparently Dewayne felt otherwise.

Allen said:
 From memory, I would have been surprised if the subject line hit even 5% of
the total in either month, so, I read through
the posts again.

Sad as I consider the information I posted to be the most important industry
information posted on BEE-L in 2004.

Allen said:
 Then again, BEE-L has no "message
boards", so maybe the post refers to another BEE-L?

The whole world can read BEE-L from the web without posting. Maybe Dewayne
considers BEE-L a "message board". Maybe Dewayne is not even a member?
Don't know?

 I  do know Dewayne (whom I have never met) had his facts correct in his
article and from rereading his article quotes Burt Belliston, Lyle Johnston,
Dave Baker, John Baker , Joe Trayner, Eric Mussen & Frank Eischen which are
the people he most likely interviewed  for the article.

The article says Dewayne Lumpkin is a freelance journalist so I would guess
Dewayne does not even keep bees. Many authors which write on subjects are
not directly involved but only research the subject. Hopefully Dewayne will
write other articles for the bee magazines!

Bob

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