>
> >The cause of CCD ( called the great bee die-off in Europe) found ? Wow!


The great die-off:
"For instance, the sowing (1.5 h) of Poncho
2010 corn seeds by the Gaspardo drilling machine (with the
outlet air flow directed downward by an external deflector)
induced the rapid death of more than 200 foraging bees flying
across the sowing area"

I'm not sure that 200 dead bees would constitute the great die off...

I wrote the author a week ago to ask him whether there was any mortality of
the 4 test colonies.  He hasn't answered yet.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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