You could have run the same study on blueberries in Maine and had the 
same results.

Large plantings of a single crop with a limited bloom and no competition 
from other nectar sources to sustain feral bees over the year is the 
reason for migratory beekeepers.

The study is fine. It is the next stage, where extrapolation, propaganda 
and politics takes charge that you have a problem.

BTW, I noted today on our local weather forecast that we have an 
additional eight minutes of daylight here in Maine. I have kept a record 
of the increase and it is speeding up. Based on my scientific data, 
sometime next winter we will have no more night. The only change I have 
noted to cause this is our local shipbuilder has started work on a new 
warship. We need to stop the Military Industrial Complex from destroying 
night. Send money to stop this threat to our very existence..

Bill Truesdell (I prefer large bills.)
Bath, Maine

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