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Re: bee anaesthetics (questn)
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"John E. Taylor III" <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 3 May 1996 17:59:48 -0400
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At 10:09 AM 5/3/96 GMT, you wrote:
 
>
>I have read in an old book the use of chloroform in anaethesising bees,
>for example when a very vicious but strong colony of bees needs
>requeening.
>
 
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        I'll vote with the people recommending CO2.  Chloroform as an
anesthetic can be rough on the liver of the person handling it, and is
environmentally unfriendly.  I have no idea what anesthetic doses can do to
bees, but higher levels or longer exposures are lethal to them.
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John E. Taylor III    (W3ZID)
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