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"Andy Nachbaur (by way of Andy Nachbaur <[log in to unmask]>)" <[log in to unmask]>
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At 09:24 PM 5/30/98 -0700, you wrote:
 
>The apple guy at the San Francisco Farmers's Market is really curious about
>Africanized behaviour.
 
>A bee person told him of a beekeeper who wore a face mask to mask his breath
>out a hose a some minimal distance -- enough to not disturb the bees -- and
>he was able to work without disturbing them. He was really anxious to see
>know if this were an excitement trigger.
 
Hi Robert,
 
Tell the Apple Guy that picture and "story" was the direct result of one
government agency, the "USDA", having too many of his/our tax dollars to
spend and it's only purpose was to put the "fear" in him by promoting
"killer" bees so he would be more then happy to pay more taxes to support
their work. The people who do this work have little practical knowledge of
keeping bees or those bee keepers who do and most would starve to death if
they had to produce anything with a consumer value like honey or apples
even if they were given a 1,000 hives of bees and a 1,000 acres of Apples
to try to make a living at no cost to them.
 
The day that we bee keepers dress up with breathing tubes will be after we
finish a dinner of apples with worms and maggots in them because the same
government agency says that increases the protein people receive from
eating apples.
 
If you want an honest evaluation on "killer" bees and so called "BS" (bee
science) take a trip to:
 
http://beenet.com/texmex.htm
 
But first maybe you should check out the writers credentials at:
 
http://www.mca.com/tv/players/zuckerman.html
 
Of course Ed is not a Bee Scientist, but he did graduate from Cornell and
only because he has found success can he now afford to expose the truth of
the "killer" bees and not the HYPE he helped produce in his other life as a
hungry journalist...
 
>I could go hit an Africanized FAQ and would appreciate any leads, but I
 
Most of these FAQ's are no more then what one should do when around any
bees if one does not want to collect stings.
 
It matters little what the color, race, or religion of the bees or the
intended target is.
 
It is well to remember when you are run down and killed by an automobile it
matters not to you what the make, model, or year it was, (well maybe it
does to your family as they would want to sue the guy with the new $200,000
import and not the illegal immigrant with the tired old $500 pick up who
can't afford insurance and would take leg bail anyway.) Its the same with
being stung by a bee, if you are one of the dozen or so people who die each
year from bee stings in the US, the bee that kills you becomes a "killer"
bee regardless of its color, race or religion. If the bee keeper has
anything of value other then his bees and has conducted his business in a
way to cause the public to be put at risk then he would be a target of
litigation and soon would be out of business because of the increasing cost
of lie ability insurance. The bigger the lie the higher the cost and we can
thank those who continue to hype "killer" bees for the ever increasing cost
of insurance to beekeepers. I don't know any beekeeper who have been put
out of business because of their bees being "killers", but many beekeepers
can not afford insurance.
 
BTW, most of those who die from bee stings do so because they did not
realize they were super sensitive to the proteins in the bee stings and
these deaths are for the most part preventable. So if one needs to look for
the good in all this hype about "killer" bees it has made the public more
aware of the danger to those people and in fact the death rate from all bee
stings has decreased since the start of the "killer" bee hype.
 
>"slightly-more-informed-than-general-information" viewpoint.
 
Good Luck, but I have found in public most bee scientists follow the Party
Line set by Government BS and only one or two in a lifetime dare do
different. The beekeepers who have Tex-Mex or so called African bees don't
say much as they have other work that keeps them busy, producing honey, and
today the commercial quantity of honey produced in the USA may come from as
high as 10% Africanized bees.
And for sure as much as 30% of all the honey consumed each year in the USA
is produced by African bees outside of Africa for which those producers
should be very grateful.
 
ttul, the OLd Drone
Los Banos, California

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