I am not trying to be funny at all. Within the limits of my english and lack of time, I am trying to be respectfull. If only now we have a Standard Method published by a renowed consortium of bee scientist it is because we can not compare apples to pineapples. ergo I do understand your question and believe the answer to your question is not, efficacies published up to date with no standard method are not comparable. Juanse The chilean that works with humor/irony to make people deduce/understand *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html