> Australian bee expert Dr Doug Somerville of New South Wales Department of
Primary Industries says: "Australian packages only arrived on the US shore
in 2005 so the linkage with Australia is just garbage."

* That's fair.

> Somerville thinks the role of IAPV is "academic". "Bees are suffering a
whole range of other issues which are probably far more serious," he says.

* Well, now, we don't know which is the most serious, do we?

> He says Australian bees tend to feed on native flora rather than the
pesticide sprayed weeds and crops of US bees.

* Whoops! Went over the deep end!

-- 
Peter

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