On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:13 PM, James Fischer <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

Is this a "pesticide issue"?
It is hard to say.

That's being honest!

Quite the conversation,     how about management?

having said that,  how many of you that have posted lists of papers or have
referred to some
out there have actually read them, that would certainly improve your
management
wouldn't it?    I doubt many of you have.   Seems too much copy and paste
compilations.
It's one thing to tell others that one has spoken with umpteen beeks but
really, how many have actually taken samples and received test results and
in turn
have the knowledge base to interpret those findings. And if they do then
let's hear from them
on how they changed things  ---MANAGED  differently
That's where it's at.
Same malarkey here in Ontario.
Alot of know it all's,  hand me down information that makes the matters
worse and plays
into the hands of special interest groups and as here in Ontario,
politicians.
Just ending a two year INDEPENDENT sentinal hive health study.  Lots of
instrumentation
sampling and analysis by independent labs.  Hives were 15 feet from rotated
neonic corn
and soy and btw, year one has already been presented to PMRA.

I can tell you as one who lurks on this list that I cannot blame neonics
for the very healthy
hives that I have and will continue to have.
As for queens, well, Russian genetics makes all the difference in my case.

Walter
littlewolfapiaries.com

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