Allen wrote:

"Often leads that are hinted here are followed up off-list.  Often 
topics
discussed here inspire experiments, collaboration, or show up a few
months later in beekeeping magazines -- either in articles by BEE-L
members or by the scientists who follow this list but never post."

All of us can produce anecdotes based on our own observations, but few 
are large scale enough to replicate an observation many times over so 
that it becomes a scientifically valid result from which useful 
conclusions can be drawn.  Those who are large scale beekeepers are 
probably too busy, or too concerned with keeping their accountant 
happy, to spare the time and resources to experiment.

Is it possible that we could use BeeL  to organise widespread 
experiments/observations that, through all using the same methods and 
recording the observations in the same way could result in useful 
scientific data being produced?

Chris

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