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From: "Gavin Ramsay" <[log in to unmask]>


>Mike in LA has just confirmed that Alabama hasn't had a confirmed case of 
>CCD, and it has an inter-state quarantine on comb if not bees.  Do you 
>think that is significant?  Inter-state quarantines might not stop all 
>pests and pathogens, but they might slow or stop some.  Or is it that 
>Alabama beekeepers can't jump on the inter-state pollination run, and it is 
>that rather than quarantine per se that protects them?


Gavin, your supposition breaks down at the consideration of all the 
migratory beekeepers that have also not had any CCD.

Dave 

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