Sharon, This is the type of information I am looking for. I would be interested in reading your copy provided you find it in your storage files. Perhaps a second edition could be created as an update to.... ?? Creating a resource/reference binderis one method of combating the media's hype and satisfying the public's information thirst about the AHB. Paul Cronshaw DC [log in to unmask] >When the first Africanized honeybees hit the media many years ago, I >was concerned about the same thing. I worked with Jim Bach, WSDept. Ag. >Bee inspector, Dr. Art Antonelli, state Extension Entomologist and Dan >Mayer, state Extension Entomologist in bees and pollination. We >collaborative put together abooklet, with a velum binding, that gave >background information, lists of resources, value of bees to the state >economy, importance of honeybees for urban gardens, and a list of other >stinging insects (wasps, baldface hornet, paper wasp, mu d daubers, >etc.) and finally a list of contacts for specific information. > >This was sent to major urban news media, state legislators and county >counsel members and county executives, and mayors of major cities. The >goal was to avoid panic news articles. At the very least we could >document that they had background info and resources to call. > > >We presume we were very successful because there were no followon stories >about potential for "killer bees" in Seattle that we might have expected. > >We bound the booklets hoping for a professional look and something that >wouldn't get scattered across newsdesks and trash cans. The money to >produce it was minor since we all bootlegged the costs out of normal >extension production and mail allocations. Wa. State dept. of Ag. found >the $100 or so for the velum bindings. Somewhere a copy still exists but >I'd have to did in my storage files. > >SHARON J. COLLMAN >W.S.U. COOPERATIVE EXTENSION >URBAN IPM RESOURCE CENTER >@ CENTER FOR URBAN HORTICULTURE >UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON GF-15 >SEATTLE, WA 98195 > >PHONE: 206-543-8616 >E-MAIL [log in to unmask]