> I do not know whether there was a pathogen in only one hive that then
> affected all, or whether the same effect would happen if one ground
> up only bees from the same hive.  I just got word that So. Cal
> Beekeeper Assoc is going to send me some research money, so hope to
> test this season.

I'm surprised that this topic died so quickly.

Why is speculating about sub-lethal effects of pesticides which may or
may not have some sort of impact under some conditions so much more
interesting than Randy's report about an apparently easy way to kill
colonies using only _the contents of those same colonies_?

I will be very interested to learn the results of feeding a serum made
from 50, 20, 10... bees from one colony to that same
colony, replicated over ~ten similar colonies at the same time.

IMO, this approach is likely to be very productive and produce some very
interesting results, results which could be the basis of some very
important further work.

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