On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:15:18 -0600, Bob Harrison <bba@DOn Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:15:18 -
0600, Bob Harrison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>However if you turn to pg. 12 of the February Bee Culture you can read for
>yourself the pesticides found in those few CCD samples taken & tested. Look
>at the average number of pesticides in samples. What effect does a toxic
>soup of five different pesticides mean for bees. Both in lethal and
>sub lethal effects. No wonder other insect pests and other bees will not
>rob.
>


I read it differently

"they found high levels of pesticides in beeswax with the pyrethoids dominant. But the loads were 
amazing. Fluvalinate (with a half life in beeswax of 5 years) was found from 4640 to 53,800 oob, 
the two break down products from coumophos from 8-18,600 ppb. There were more but these 
were the biggies" 

The take away message for me is the beekeepers are killing their bees with mite treatments. 
Turning the page in the same magazine on page 14 an informal survey yielded a stunning 57% of 
respondents use "Regular chemical treatments"  (apistan checkmite)!!!!

Up here in the heartland of beekeeping the practice of buying those two products in bulk jug form 
and making blue shop rags is the status quo in the migratory world. We've had enforcement 
actions every single summer from MN Dept Ag. Nodak apperently swept up several this summer 
but never did a public news release. 

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