>CO2 has been used on bees and queens for years.

And has been demonstrated to have serious effects upon bee longevity if
held too long.  Is not the best way to anesthetize bees for a mortality
study.

>
> >74F. Rather cool temperature. Give me a break. I don't keep my house that
>>
>> warm. !


Bob, last I heard, you are not a honey bee, nor do you live in a hive.
 Bees are stressed considerably at that temperature.  In the hive, they are
able to move to the inside of the cluster from time to time to allow
certain temperature-dependent enzymes to work.  And, as I'm sure you
remember from some of my articles, the toxicity of some pesticides is
highly temperature dependent in honey bees.

>
> >Easy to pick apart studies.
>

Not the good ones!


-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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