Just curious, since this whole issue does not make sense, but were these the Hackenburg hives? It seems that the 
Penn people like them as the testbed for all things CCD?

What is really puzzling is the apparent lack of any tests of both the inside pollen, wax and honey compared to 
what was collected from traps in the same colony. Seems to be a lack of control of the experiment. If you do not 
know the state of the bee going out how can you measure what is coming back in? Is it from outside pesticides or 
was it on the bee all along?

What has been coming out of the penn group leaves a lot to be desired. As I noted several times, the work of the 
western CCD groups has been much better than anything out of the east. The eastern group seems to be fixated on 
the Hackenberg hives at the exclusion of most all else. A single data point does not a study make.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

****************************************************
* General Information About BEE-L is available at: *
* http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/default.htm   *
****************************************************