Bob Harrison:
A whole hive could not be involved.


Reply:
So a whole hive cannot be used, but patchwork done in nuc
like sizes can? Interesting.

And yet Nature involves a whole spectrum, comes at you from
all sides at once, but you cannot do research with a
whole-bee concept or whole hive set up you say.

 And the labs to do research, then have to eliminate all
other factors that might cause their thoghts to go wrong,
like other beneficials in co-host relationships, and
interacting secondary diseases, or do they just not
recognize them being there? Interesting you saying this
patchwork thing is the norm.Sounds like sound bite research
and not addressing a whole-bee related problem us
beekeepers have.

So how do you solve a whole hive problem that is being hit
from all sides, parasites, beetles, stress, secondary
diseases (many times more then one at once), artificial
setups, all various treatments, if you cannot work the
problem as a whole, as everything is interrelated and have
to work by patchwork testing?  From what you say then, the
scientists cannot, so I guess it must be left to beekeepers
for the long haul then to see what lives and what dies,
bottom line while working the field management out.

Respectfully submitted,


Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeping
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrganicBeekeepers



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