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Dee Lusby <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 5 Oct 2003 09:24:27 -0700
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Dee said:
Also we do not believe in clipped queens due to AI.

Bob Replied:
You lost me here?  What does a clipped wing or instrumental

insemination of a queen have to do with the purity of
honey.

Reply:
Quite a lot in the long run on a continuing breeding
program, for it will effect disease and parasites, which
will then effect how the situations are handled. . .i.e.
clean or dirty. Here natural outbreeding is better then man
controlled AI. After all, don't people see organics as
natral?

Bob Harrison then wrote:
 Will eating honey from a hive headed by a queen bee with a
clipped queen or has been inseminated cause a
health problem ( or are you simply trying to set a standard
for organic honey which most will give up on before they
try  because of severe limitions in their present
beekeeping practices?)

Reply:
No it will not here if taken in this sense.

But organic beekeeping is more then just producing
so-called clean honey. To me IMPOV an organic program that
has problems of disease and predators and parasites is no
real organic program for organic beekeeping should be in
harmony with Nature.

When all ducks line up and the problems with the bees
necessatating the various doping ways stop, and the bees
become healthy, strong, and continuing with basic field
manipulative management, then you have arrived.

Bob Harrison further wrote:
Hope you carry excellent product liability insurance? The
paper work is to protect the drug makers and not you if a
problem arises!

My brother is a lawyer.

Reply:
Good your brother is a lawyer, then he would know that if
the honey is bought for zero tolerance and medical usage by
the pharmacies, then they are going to protect it and
sort/seek it out! Yes, they indeed know what it is worth
and will protect it.

Sincerely,

Dee A. Lusby
Commercial Beekeeper
http:groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers


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