Thanks Mike, but the point I was trying to make is that commercial 
beekeeping...managing anywhere from one thousand to ten thousand colonies or 
more is logistically different than managing a few colonies.  Counting on 
your bees for your bread and butter versus doing it for a pleasant 
passionate pastime. Moving to pollination contracts, timing treatments and 
methods of application, harvest, controlling pests, shortcuts to effective 
management...the list goes on.  The bottom line is that regardless of the 
love, passion and knowledge hobbyists and commercial beekeepers share about 
the bees, it all comes down to time management and the most effective way of 
dealing with the ticking clock of a short season - hence my appreciation for 
the comments on fumidil dusting and Bob's comments on after pollination 
stimulation feeding.  So much more useful than endless debates and tangents 
that BeeL sometimes can go off on at the expense of knowlegeable beekeepers 
that have left the list or no longer contribute.

Claude 

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