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From: "al picketts" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology"
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Subject: Re: Imidacloprid
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:04:23 -0300

Bob & All
I realize that the wheels of change turn slowly especially when a chemical
company is reaping big bucks and as you wrote *solutions happen with time
BUT usually after a hugh number of hives have been lost.*  Then I guess
solutions are at hand because the problem has been evident for about 6 years
and also about 300,000 hives have been lost. Or does time and losses in
another country not count?
I suggest that Americans not take the "It doesn't concern me until I see my
own bees are dead" approach.  Remember what the fellow said as he passed the
25th floor falling from the roof of a fifty story building. "So far so
good"! It may be a short lived security.
I enjoy your entries, Bob.
Big Al
PEI, Canada