NYT opinion piece on CCD - the comments are hilarious and unwittingly prove the authors point about misinformation and folks wanting to believe their own theory. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/whats-behind-the-honeybee-decline-perhaps-not-what-youve-heard/ A nugget buried in the opinion article links http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33938.pdf see page 16 and http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/permits/organism/bees/index.shtml I did not know that we can import packages and queens into the USA from New Zealand? Has this occurred yet? *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Access BEE-L directly at: http://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A0=BEE-L