Sharon,
 
This is the type of information I am looking for.  I would be interested in
reading your copy provided you find it in your storage files.  Perhaps a
second edition could be created as an update to.... ??
 
Creating a resource/reference binderis one method of combating the media's
hype and satisfying the public's information thirst about the AHB.
 
Paul Cronshaw DC
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>When the first Africanized honeybees hit the media many years ago, I
>was concerned about the same thing.  I worked with Jim Bach, WSDept. Ag.
>Bee inspector, Dr. Art Antonelli, state Extension Entomologist and Dan
>Mayer, state Extension Entomologist in bees and pollination.  We
>collaborative put together abooklet, with a velum binding, that gave
>background information, lists of resources, value of bees to the state
>economy, importance of honeybees for urban gardens, and a list of other
>stinging insects (wasps, baldface hornet, paper wasp, mu d daubers,
>etc.) and finally a list of contacts for specific information.
>
>This was sent to major urban news media, state legislators and county
>counsel members and county executives, and mayors of major cities.  The
>goal was to avoid panic news articles.  At the very least we could
>document that they had background info and resources to call.
>
>
>We presume we were very successful because there were no followon stories
>about potential for "killer bees" in Seattle that we might have expected.
>
>We bound the booklets hoping for a professional look and something that
>wouldn't get scattered across newsdesks and trash cans.  The money to
>produce it was minor since we all bootlegged the costs out of normal
>extension production and mail allocations.  Wa. State dept. of Ag. found
>the $100 or so for the velum bindings.  Somewhere a copy still exists but
>I'd have to did in my storage files.
>
>SHARON J. COLLMAN
>W.S.U. COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
>URBAN IPM RESOURCE CENTER
>@ CENTER FOR URBAN HORTICULTURE
>UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   GF-15
>SEATTLE, WA  98195
>
>PHONE: 206-543-8616
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