At 12:00 AM 5/9/2010, Bob wrote:
>In my opinion the naming of CCD only confuses the issue. many researchers in
>Canada & Europe I have spoken with feel the same way. Every dead hive is now
>by many called CCD.

Not sure this is different from earlier problems. I once moderated an 
open discussion of winter deaths with Indiana Beekeepers. They all 
had decided on a cause (often tracheal mites, that year) but not a 
single one had done any testing or sent bee samples into the USDA for 
free forensics.

CCD has a carefully defined list of symptoms, and they're often 
ignored. Just like the availability of free forensics is ignored. And 
if you don't know for sure what contributed to killing them then how 
do you intelligently plan on a strategy to improve things?

Rob Green
Indiana Beekeeping School

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