To Betty McAdam,  Hog Bay Apiary
 
Thanks for your interesting report of the ecological influence of honeybees
in Australia.
Can you give me more info. on G. Pyke. and why English Nature should be so
influenced by him?  Where are his "Media releases" published?
 
Sorry I don't know what CSIRO is.
 
Glyn Davies, Ashburton, Devon UK
 
You reported that:
 
>Graham Pyke is known to apiarists in Australia as a campaigner against honey
>bees on the grounds that they are not native species.  He is not employed in
>research related to honeybees and apiarist associations challenge his media
>releases on the basis of inaccuracies and exaggerations.  He is pursuing a
>personal campaign against honeybees.
>
>As far as pollination is concerned I put more faith in a C.S.I.R.O. research
>report that eucalyptus species benefitted from pollination by honeybees,
>with greater number of seeds and more weight per seed being measurable when
>honey bees take the role of pollinator.
 
>Betty McAdam
>HOG BAY APIARY
>Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island
>j.h. & e. mcadam<[log in to unmask]
>http://kigateway.eastend.com.au/hogbay/hogbay1.htm
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