>>similarly if a beek is moving CCD infected hives (what ever that means)  across country and infects someone else and they can prove it ...is there a liability involved with the beek who 
moved the hives if he knew he had CCD? 

Since no one (?) knows what causes CCD and its modes of transmission - there is also that possibility that hives collapse from what the bees found in the fields/orchards - are also unknown, one currently has an impossible case to prove.  I do agree with you that it's not *nice* of anyone to go around the country and spread pests/disease etc.

Similar to trying to prove that one of my bees stung you...

Waldemar

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