Brian Fredericksen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:As I started this thread I'll repeat my belief that CCD has turned into an over blown media circus of epic proportions while common sense sits by the sidelines. IMO the losses were never that big as compared to other historical losses ......................
      
Brian,
     You may be right that this recent loss of colonies is not a big a previous losses, but.......    The previous losses never received the publicity this past loss has received.  The public's attention has been caught up in all the hoopla as never before.  It has paved the way for U.S. beekeepers to bring other concerns and problems to the public forum like never before.  Is CCD a concern?  Yes.  Is it of a nature to receive the level of concern it has as compared to previous problems experienced?  Don't know.  Let's use the exposure, the publicity to our best advantage as an industry as a whole, not as factions of an industry.  And, if migratory beekeeping gets the brunt of the benefits of all this investigation, know that there is a trickle down effect and that all of beekeeping benefits.  After all, if passing semi loads of migratory bees aren't throwing off clusters of small hive beetles around a nearby hobbyist's yard, doesn't he/she benefit?

Mike in LA

       
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