Additional thoughts toward a coordinated program;
        I think that most of the commercial and hobbyist beekeepers
     recognize that working at this thing alone is like trying to find the
     cure for cancer in your kitchen sink.  It will take a coordinated
     effort guided by someone who has the background in scientific method
     and can break the problem down into tasks that can be accomplished by
     independent beekeepers.
        The analogy that pops into my mind is that of distributed computer
     processing where the computing power of many small computers is used
     in parallel, each working on a small chunk of the problem.  Each
     individual computer, by itself, could not solve the problem but they
     can solve a small piece of it.
        To the scientists on the net, are there opportunities to use the
     "distributed resources" or is it impossible to coordinate the number
     of volunteers who would step forward to help.   Or perhaps the problem
     we are trying to solve cannot yet be broken into components that can
     be distributed.
        Regardless, I think that if we wait on outside support to help us
     fix the problem or develop procedures and techniques which will help
     us adapt, we will not get very far for a very long time.  Right now
     some of the brightest and most experienced beekeepers and bee
     scientists are able to tap and coordinate the resources of the world
     beekeeping community.  Surely, in all that brainpower and experience,
     we can find a way of mobilizing a coordinated approach to the problem.
     Ah well, I am probably naive, and I apologize for taking up so much
     space.
     This issue has been bubbling inside of me for a long time that when I
     got started I found I couldn't stop.
     Yours,
     Mark Egloff.