This thread has wandered along the very edge of relevance to bees, bee biology and beekeeping from the start.  

Writers are asked to remember that BEE-L is intended as primarily a science-based bee list and that topics which wander too far afield are likely to bore and even annoy those who subscribe to read and write about bees and beekeeping. 

This is especially true when we venture into topics like organics, "chemicals", GMOs, AGW and other hot button topics where non-scientific and anti-scientific material is widely disseminated and believed, and where "discussion" tends to take the form of alternating recitals of opposing catechisms, accompanied by links to "proofs" of varying quality with little or no reference or relevance to our core mandate: bees and beekeeping.

The original reference was interesting in that can be seen to relate to many things we think about regarding bees and their relationship to their environment and the interventions used by beekeepers and other agricultural producers to deal with what we consider to be problems. 

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