In a message dated 06/11/2008 11:17:03 GMT Standard Time,  
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the  current losses are driven mostly by poor beekeeping weather and that 
will  change


This was confirmed at a lecture at the National Honey Show by Dr Giles  Budge 
of the  government's Central Science Laboratory. There is a very  strong 
statistical link between weather and losses.  The greatest peak on  the graph for 
losses was 1987 but nobody made a fuss then!
 
Whether the weather will change is imponderable and Gavin may as well send  
Mrs Gavin to ask the wether on the hill if the changing climate will wet  her.  
We the possible (probable) cause of global warming are now finding it  cooler 
than usual.
 
Chris

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