Dick Marron:  “His answer was telling. "I wouldn't tell
you if I did (have ccd)!" He wasn't just being obtuse.”

This really doesn’t paint a very pretty picture of the large scale 
migratory bee business does it?  It seems that these folks are so close to 
the edge of disaster all the time that it brings out some less than 
altruistic behavior in them.  I’m glad I am not part of that kind of 
system.  Considering the potential impact a guy like this could have on 
other people’s beekeeping operations I am surprised that keeping secret 
something as significant as massive dead outs from what ever cause, is even 
an option in this day and age.  Maybe the growers and the pollinators 
should get together and form a consortium that could provide some kind of 
safety net so that if one beekeeper was hit by something like ccd he would 
not have to hide the fact thereby perhaps putting other unsuspecting 
bystanders at greater risk.  Then maybe he could become part of the 
solution instead of being part of the problem. 

Steve Noble      

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