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>I agree wholly with Randy.  Lab bees in cages don't have the same  dynamics 
as whole populations of bees.

agreed!  so why are caged studies such a large part of the research being done...including your own recent (and excelent) work?  why should we be skeptical of a neonic study that (probably) was on caged bees, but not of a study of nosema/virus infected bees in cages?

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0013181
"Laboratory cage trials with a strain of IIV type 6 and Nosema ceranae confirmed that co-infection with these two pathogens was more lethal to bees than either pathogen alone."

deknow

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