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From: "Peter L Borst" <[log in to unmask]>

 >A beekeeper that kept bees by an orchard knowing that spraying was going 
to be done, would be a knucklehead.

No, it is the farmer that kills bees that is a knucklehead.

I kept bees in the orchard year-around when I was an orchard manager and we 
did not kill them, because we followed the label directions scrupulously.

The kept bees also were a monitor of the effect we would have on wild bees 
in the area. A grower needs every bit of "background" pollination he can get 
as well, both to supplement the managed pollination, and as an emergency 
backup, such as when a beekeeper truck is in a wreck, or he maybe has a 
heart attack, etc.

Beekeepers who run away from pesticides are enablers, who let the pesticide 
users continue sloppy usage. And, in the end, they will find the kept bees 
crowded into smaller and smaller areas until there is nowhere else to go.

Dave Green, retired beekeeper 

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