Allen you wrote:

>
>The fact that as many of the hives survived as long as they did, of course 
>is impressive, but this study did not prove much more than that in this one 
>instance, in these circumstances, the chemical was not obviously and 
>immediately lethal.

Slides 16 and 17  lead one to conclude the compound allows the
development of Nosema and varroa mites in the test colonies substantially
more than in the control colonies. Because this is just before winter
it could be reasoned that this will increase winter mortality.

So yes, it would have been valuable to have extended the trial beyond
October and compare to predecent compounds in a similar trial
before assuming Movento is safer.

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html

Access BEE-L directly at:
http://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A0=BEE-L