From: DOUG 'SPEAKER-TO-INSECTS' YANEGA <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: bumblebees
 
> > There is a lot of "secrets" in bumblebees rearing (business?).
> > Good Luck.      Regards.                Jean-Marie
>
> Gee, am I the only person who finds that restricting the exchange of
> biological information due to profit-making considerations is just a
> *bit* disheartening? What's next? Patents on rearing techniques?
> Royalties when people use a bee that you've conducted research on for
> pollination? Doesn't seem much like science any more when the primary
> hypothesis being tested is how much profit one can achieve.
 
When I saw "secrets", I was thinking some knacks to do rearing,
hibernating and waking up with bumblebees mother-queens ...  When a
commercial pollination company has caught some ... it keeps them to
maintain the profit of its investments (with or without patents) !
 
My first opinion was to exclude all the scientists which, it is well
known, publish their whole finds.  But you know there is some silents
(deliberate or not) and publications it is impossible to do again by
missing the "sleight of hand" you need to be successful.  This
paragraph is quite not directed to the scientists doing rearing and
hibernating bumblebees neither honey bees. Of course.
 
Cheers.                         Jean-Marie
 
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