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Re: the African Bee in Africa
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George Fergusson <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:16:05 -0500
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Bill Truesdell wrote:
> The only time I have seen EFB was when I was with Tony Jadczak when he 
> inspected commercial migratory beekeepers on the blueberry barrens.

I'll always associate EFB with the smell of rotten fish. Tony Jadczak 
found some in a couple of my hives last spring and put a dab of it on my 
veil. I smelled it all day.

He also mentioned the tendency of EFB to occur in the blueberry belt but 
he didn't offer any explanation for it.

George-
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George Fergusson
Whitefield Maine

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