In a message dated 26/04/2007 04:37:31 GMT Standard Time,  
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TM has  always shown symptoms in my
bees. Hoppers are common and found as far a  fifty feet from the hives.
Usually they show wing damage but sometimes only  hoppers or crawlers. Some
even stagger or  tremble.



".....the notable entomologist Imms (1907) ......differentiated the disease  
from paralysis because of the lack of a dark appearance and trembly motion 
often  alleged at that time to be characteristic of bees with paralysis."
 
".... Rennie et al (1921) had observed that many [TM] infested  colonies 
apeared to be healthy and that many individual bees severely infested  with mites 
also appeared to be healthy and foraging normally, whereas uninfested  bees in 
the same colony often showed severy signs of the disease."
 
Quotations from a lecture delivered by Dr leslie Bailey to the Central  
Association of Beekeepers on 14th October 2000 and entitled 'The Isle of Wight  
Disease'.
 
Chris



   

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