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Tom Barrett <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:25:08 +0000
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Hello All

If bees travel say 2 miles, then they forage in a circle, the area of which
is specified as PI multiplied by R squared.

This ends up as 8038 acres - (3.14*(2^2)*640) (640 acres in a square mile)

If all of this area is controlled by the beekeeper, and his wife does not
use any pesticides on her garden then fair enough. But can anybody tell me
or anybody else in all honesty that the bees will pick up nectar from forage
which has not been affected by pesticides in such a vast area?

Sincerely
Tom Barrett
Dublin
Ireland

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