On Friday, I spoke to a state apiculturist, who inspects thousands of 
colonies. In May, he took samples of bees from colonies belonging to one of 
the beekeepers who started this "CCD" thing. The samples had very high 
Tracheal and Varroa loads. He told that beekeeper, that unless he did 
something, his bees would crash in the fall. They did just that.

He still has samples of these bees in vials. He offered the samples to the 
CCD investigators, and        they refused the offer.

  I find that very odd.
Mike

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