Bob Harrison wrote:
>What do the test results say? I think after being in the bee business over
>forty years if a new problem had been found we would have been told by now.

Maryanne Frazier, a honeybee specialist in Pennsylvania and member of the
newly formed Colony Collapse Disorder Working Group thinks that there is
something unique about what is happening this year.

"The sheer magnitude suggests that this is something new. The bad year we
had last year is likely playing a part in this — but it is unlikely that
that stress alone would cause such a big a problem. Maybe there is an
unknown disease that wasn't a problem before and now, coupled with the
stress, it has become a big one," said Frazier.

http://www.chroniclet.com/

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pb

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