Jim and anyone else who is still with us,
     Wait a minute. Isn’t the Xerces Society the very group that published 
the paper calling attention to the likelihood that traffic in FOREIGN 
Bumblebee queens caused the apparent local extinction of one and the steep 
decline in two other species of NATIVE Bumblebees?  Is this same the group 
that you claim is out to get beekeepers and is somehow responsible for the 
very calamity they have called attention to?  Very strange.  Here is a 
group ostensibly dedicated to the health and well being of NATIVE 
pollinators being accused of causing their demise through the introduction 
of FOREIGN pollinators and then telling the whole world about it.  Well 
I’ll be damned if I’m not being tortured by my own logic, Jim.

Steve Noble

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