This silly argument is mostly semantics. To a commercial beek, a bee is
judged by what it DOES. If it's bad about stinging, it's AHB. To a
researcher, a bee is judged by what it IS on test results. If it has
African DNA etc., it's AHB.
To an ex-beek lurker, it seems that the commercial guy is interested in
whether to requeen or not. And he can run his operation based on his
definition, doesn't really care if it's AHB, just is it hot. The researcher
has different objectives, like learning more about AHB behavior, and adapts
his actions accordingly. Two totally different enterprises, trying to do
two different things. Apples and oranges. Please, knock off the argument.
It's getting boring.
Walter Weller
----- Original Message -----
From: "DAVID ADAMS" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] African Bees in America
> My take on all the Dna and research on this,it has little help or reality
> in the real world,to do anything but cause alot of mis information,even
> for government officials to use.
>
> It seems that most research is grant motivated,and is only done if the
> person can get funding and i.e. keep working by the grant motivated
> research,and alot of times the work is not of any benefit.
>
> Granted here in Florida ,there will be more feral swarms showing up as is
> the case in my area,but I have to think theres to many managed hives still
> around for pure swarms to "take" over the state.
> Unfortunately everyone has an agenda to gain out of it besides help
> beekeeping,i.e. , pest control operators,with bee knowledge,our own Apiary
> dept which is trying to place themselves as the only hope to keep our
> beloved tourists safe,and save the department from the budget ax.
> A good example,I'm told that,here, if I as a beekeeper spray a feral
> swarm with soapy water,the soap now becomes a pesticide,and I have to have
> a pest control license to do so ,if I'm paid.
> I can't help but think that if all the money spent on tex-mex bee studies
> had been put toward mite resistant breeding and studies,nosema controls
> and other more serious problems ,how much better off the beekeeping
> worldwide would be.
> But I'm a hands on thinking kind of person,I shouldn't even be taking
> time to make sense of this,I need to have my head in some bee hives right
> now.
> I just can't stand mis information being spread like wildfire about the
> way things really are in what I do for a living,the thread shifted from
> Dna to behavior ,but the two go hand in hand.
>
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