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From: tomas mozer <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [Fwd: Varroasis, and Parliament]
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:08:54 -0700
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From: "Kidney John" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Varroasis, and Parliament
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 15:36:24 +0100
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>From today's (Thur, 24, April, '98) Guardian.........
 
"Old remedies are urged to ease plight of bee"
 
    "MPs were yesterday given a bleak picture of a countryside without
birds or bees, fruit trees or crops, caused by the devastation of the
honey bee from the bloodsucking Varroa mite.
    The Asda chairman and Tunbridge Wells MP, Archie Norman, the man
whose day job it is to save the Tory party, last night warned the
Government: Unless we take action now it may well be that we will see
partial extinction of the honey bee in the U.K.  It is almost literally
a question of to bee or not to bee."
    The junior agriculture Minister, Eliot Morley, promised a #400,000
research project into fungicidal control of the parasite.  But
Opposition MPs were unimpressed.
    Mr. Norman said that he had been alerted to the crisis by a
constitiuent who had lost more than #25,000 and 165 bee colonies to the
Varroa mite.
    It has already conquered North and South America and most of Europe,
and has made rapid inroads in Britain since it was first identified in
1992 in Devon.  Domestic honey production has been halved.  Only one jar
in 10 at supermarkets are home-grown.
     Mr. Norman attacked the Government's decision last autumn to outlaw
traditional practices such as dowsing bees in talcum powder and to
licence only one alternative treatment.  It would, he said, lead to the
devastation of the British beekeeping industry.  No bees meant no
pollination, no pollination meant no seeds, and no seeds meant no birds.
    Announcing the research project, Mr. Morley told MPs there was
nothing to stop manufacturers from seeking approval for their cures orl
beekeepers from asking whether their traditional remedies were still
allowed."
(Anne Perkins, Political Correspondent)
 
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Eliot Morley is my constituency MP.  I write to him occasionally, about
divers matters.  Any comments on the above, can be e-mailed to
bees@geminidotnildramdotcodotuk :  I will collate them and send 'en
masse' to him.
 
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John                      [log in to unmask]
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