>Researchers still don't have a handle on CCD so what some say is conjecture without conclusive tests to back up the conjecture.>

You'll have to ask the researchers why they are 
conjecturing.

My only concern at this time is to support my 
conjecture that a single pathogen or single 
factor is not sufficient to cause a colony to 
collapse from CCD. And I will do this by quoting
from a few 'conjectures' provided by leading 
researchers in the field.

"Previous attempts to find the cause of CCD 
failed to identify a single factor that explained 
all cases of CCD (Cox-Foster et al. 2007,
Johnson et al. 2009b, vanEngelsdorp et al. 2009)"

"Pathogens might be causing the end result of 
a collapsed colony, but other factors are causing 
sickness in the bees," - Dennis vanEnglesdorp 

"This CART analysis provides evidence that CCD 
is likely the result of several factors acting in concert, 
making afflicted colonies more susceptible to disease."
VANENGELSDORP D. (1,2), SPEYBROECK N. (3,4), EVANS J. 
(5), NGUYEN B.K. (6), MULLIN C. (2), FRAZIER M. (2),  FRAZIER J. 
(2), COX-FOSTER D. (2), CHEN Y. (5), TARPY D.R. (7), 
HAUBRUGE E. (6), PETTIS J.S. (5), SAEGERMAN C. (8

Best Wishes,
J. Waggle
Pennsylvania

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html

Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at:
http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm