>> In 48 years, I've never seen anything like
>> the initial cases of this syndrome.
>> [Growers are] more likely to look for other bee
>> suppliers if you claim the boogey man CCD.
There are three types of beekeepers - those who have seen "CCD", those who
haven't, and those who, like Sgt Shultz from "Hogan's Heroes", "See NOTHING,
Know NOTHING!"
> We treated half the hives with dsRNA to
> suppress the virus.
> The results: what certainly appeared to be
> CCD, documented step by step.
If one attempts to pull up the www.beelogics.com web page, one finds no hint
of Monsanto/Beelogics (now part of Bayer) nor any hint that Beelogics' IAPv
antiviral ever existed.
The page instead redirects to a very generic page about bee health, one that
attempts to present varroa as being "the problem", and defend the use of
pesticides as if there were "rigorous criteria" in terms of bee safety that
were prerequisites for commercialization. No mention of IAPv at all.
Searching the entire Bayer domain for any mention of IAPv yields only one
document since 2014 - it is listed along with other viruses of bees in a
brochure about varroa:
https://www.cropscience.bayer.com/sites/cropscience/files/inline-files/The_V
arroa_Mite_2020.pdf
https://tinyurl.com/4mm79luf
The brochure ends with a pitch for the "Varroa Gate" product, where every
bee to enter/exit the hive rubs up against a flumethrin strip. At least it
is not Checkmite (Coumaphos).
So, if even Bayer does not mention IAPv any longer, despite owning an
anti-viral, I think that it would be more accurate to assign the term
"boogey man" to IAPv, rather than CCD as a whole.
I've read a lot of quibbling over details in this thread, and I think it
crucial to emphasize that things like the "sampling criteria" were based
upon what little was initially known, and that it was very quickly clear
from the rapid spread of the symptoms that the problem was one or more
pathogens. There was little interest in "CCD" as a syndrome, and more
interest in the pathogens themselves, individually, and in combination. So,
those who want to critique "CCD" need to understand that it was a misnomer
label that the press used far more than those working on the problem. In a
similar vein, Panama Hats are from Ecuador, not Panama, but don't bother.
But there are many who even still dismiss Covid-19 as a "bogey man", despite
the casualties we continue to take.
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