I had a long conversation with a guy who runs a local small pest control business and has been in 
the business for 27 years. 

He has seen no noticeable change in the number of honeybee calls he's received during his 27 years 
here near Minneapolis, MN. He was interested to hear about CCD etc as he has not seen any change 
in the number of calls. He also learned over the years it was unnecessary to kill any swarms. 

Anyhow what was ironic to me is his industry is not allowed to use any organophosphates any more. 
He was stunned to hear that our industry has been allowed to use coumaphos in hives for over a 
decade and that its still a labeled use.

Beekeepers are apparently allowed to use a class of materials that insect eradicators cannot. Ponder 
the irony of that!

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