> So why should those beekeepers practising 'PPB' get any help from your
> taxpayers?

Because those beekeepers are doing the nations pollination. PPB can be as 
simple as not keeping ahead of the bee work.

The losses were an eye opener for many and they became better beekeepers.

Maybe when all the commercial beekeepers are gone China will do our 
pollination.


> Surely money going into research provides something of permanent value?

You do not see anything wrong will ALL the money going to research? 
Especially when those doing the research are not sure what they are 
researching?

Many of us are seeing insecticide kills. We used to have an indemnity 
program to at least replace the bees as past history has shown getting the 
people which poison bees to pay is very hard. Why not? a friend lost 2000 
hives in Zucchini pollination. Others in apple & orange.

In the U.S. many many crops depend on the commercial beekeepers. Now the 
growers are having to choose between using certain chemicals or getting 
needed pollination.

I spoke with a family from England last Saturday on holiday in the U.S. and 
he said half the bees in England had died. Has been in the papers he said. 
CCD?

bob 

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