Hi Jerry, a couple of questions on this comment you made the other  day.

1.  Is this the Kerr genetics that you are referring to as the  "old Baton 
Fouge experiment"
 
Yes in a way.  Drone semen brought into the US from Brazil  resulted in a 
hybrid line of bees that was distributed to beekeepers.   A disorder called 
Disappearing Disease then hit the US.  It was  well documented by Bill 
Wilson, at the USDA lab in Laramie.  IT hit the  breeding areas of LA and TX, and 
showed up when bee colonies in the north  (especially our area) had empty 
hives in the spring.  Eventually, it  was reported in nearly as many states as 
the current CCD.  
 
2.  When are you referring to? 1970s

3.  How are you using  the term "CCD" here...in the Plos One paper, you 
refer to the "CCD original  event" as being 2006-2007.  

CCD (as per our paper) was a term coined to describe the disorder seen in  
2006-2007. Some of us old timers suspect it was the same as we saw in the  
70s.  I'm not sure that the event in the 70s was the same as the  occassional 
reports going back to the turn of the century.  The incidents  in the 70s 
were the first wide spread occurrences. 
 
Wilson's reward was the closing of the lab in Laramie, moving it to  
Weslaco.  It was a career changing event.

 



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