Searching the archives does often lead to a citation worth chasing down and reading, but beekeepers should take heed of the recent "Interesting CDC Report" thread, and recognize that while the Bee-L archives have the benefit of context provided by each discussion, the commercial search engines (Google, DuckDuck, does anyone use Bing?) did not make "actual research" any easier.  

What the search engines did was to lure people into the false impression that they COULD do their own research, entirely online, and without making themselves crazy in the process.

The internet is absolutely fantastic at providing high-quality information on things like baseball trivia - Who threw the fastest knuckleball ever?  Unquestionably, R. A. Dickey, and one can readily find charts of pitch velocities for each and every pitch he threw.  But do these same search engines provide a good "survey of the literature" on beekeeping subjects, or on any "science" subject?  Not so much, as things like beekeeping do not have a sufficient critical mass of enthusiasts.  So the "Beekeeping" wiki page is only 79 kb of text, while the wiki "List of Hallmark Channel Original Movies" runs 429 kb of text.

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