> beekeepers using Coumaphos (Checkmite) averted losses of nearly 200
> million dollars to the bee industry every year, until 2008, when it the
> product was reclassified as PT.
I would dispute the value to beekeeping worldwide for coumaphos vs comb
contamination etc.
I would also debate the price charged for taking powdered choumaphos and
powdering a rubber strip ( like a powdered donut) and selling. Bayer made
plenty bucks off checkmite.
However what Peter posted did not address (at least in my mind) the question
posed by Juanse:
Juanse asked:
>PR or real help?
Why North Carolina? (far from beekeeping problem areas)
Why now?
Does Bayer realize it has a growing PR problem or simply doing for the love
of honeybees?
Each has to make up their own mind.
bob
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