>
> >It quite obvious  "I don’t know" is a phrase than many cannot say.


Oh how sadly true that is! I suffered through listening to a speaker ramble
on with an out-of-his-*** answer for ten minutes some months ago before
finally saying "I don't really know."   I surprised the audience by piping
up and saying that that would have been a better answer from the start.

>Prefering to stay local and take down that strong hive as opposed to
> moving 20 feet for an easier target.  I find that peculiar,  but pretty
> consistant.
>

That is an important observation, since I keep hearing of invasion from the
woods.

>MO and SC  have been hit hard this year.  Beekeepers in Georgia tell me
the same.

What I find interesting is that after SHB problems appearing to settle
down, that we are now hearing of a rebound.  If it's evolution, that is
scary.

Here in Calif, although the beetles have been being brought in by migratory
almond pollinators for some years, I have been watching them slowly spread
their range, and they have only recently been hitting my lowest-elevation
yards.  Are they adapting, or is it something else?

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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