On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Mike Rossander <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> I wonder who we could convince to run an experiment to show whether (and
> how much) rough handling contributes to colony deaths.
>
Since bees have no hands to handle the cleaning, for sure that the
proboscis is the main way to ingest all sort of maladies, however I doubt
this could be blame for masive apiary death most of the time with in mainly
healthy bees.
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