>The big picture implicates agrichems. I have no doubts about that anymore.

With all due respect then, Peter, if you no longer have any doubts, why are
you posting to a discussion group?  Scientific discussion is all about
having doubts, and seeing whether hypotheses stand up to scrutiny.

I'm currently in the state of Iowa.  The second most environmentally
ravaged state in North America.  Nearly every acre of the native prairie
has been destroyed, and is now farmed under an intense and
chemically-dependent agricultural model.  Yet those beekeepers who control
varroa and feed their colonies when necessary currently enjoy honey crops
above the state and historical average, and tell me that there are fewer
problems with pesticides than in the past.  To me, such on-the-ground
observations by unbiased beekeepers suggest that the problems experienced
by unsuccessful beekeepers may not be primarily due to agrichems.

Randy Oliver--who lives to doubt

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Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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