Brian Fredericksen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>http://home.ezezine.com/1636/1636-2008.01.22.09.45.archive.html

"...it seems that the irradiated colonies, by faring better, point to some 
relationship between a living organism and CCD,..."

IMO, that colonies experience a better survival rate when the combs are 
irradiated could as well point to immune system deficiencies in 
honeybees.  If so, should a treatment be developed to sterilize combs as 
a ‘routine measure‘,  we slip one again into ‘stop gap treatments‘,  which 
as we know failed so very well with varroa and unforeseen side effects.  

Best Wishes,
Joe
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalHoneybeeArticles
"A California pumpkin which had been utilized by a vagrant colony of bees 
as a honey store-house, was the first to make its appearance. The insects 
had found their way into the vegetable through a crack in its side, and 
when the owner of the pumpkin made an investigation he found that the bees 
had accumulated eight pounds of honey. The circumstance is being quoted by 
the California papers as another result of the glorious climate of that 
state where pumpkins and honey can be raised on the same vine."
(The Marshfield Times, December 03, 1886 Marshfield, Wisconsin)

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