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Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:36:55 -0400
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Dee Lusby wrote:
> Open up the books by Bailey, Ball, etc.

I have Bailey and Ball's book right here and I can see nothing in it to
support any of your statements. In fact, Bailey was a huge proponent of
fumigation of all sorts: formalin, acetic acid, ethylene oxide, and
irradiation. He very briefly mentions beneficial micro-organisms:

> Well-known symbiotes include those that dwell in the gut of termites and
ferment cellulose, enabling the insects to subsist on a diet of wood. A
related class of such organisms, but of unknown significance, live in the
gut of honey bees.

pb

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