The symptoms of CCD were NOT seen in Hawaii.

What they had was a simple pesticide kill at one location
on one island, and this incident was offered up as a TESTBED 
to compare and contrast a known "Imidiclorprid kill" to what 
is being seen with CCD.

The symptoms were not at all similar to CCD, but the offer of 
the kill as a "testbed" may have resulted in garbled communications.


This clarification comes from Gus Rouse (Kona Queen) in Hawaii:

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"This all came about after we received a "spray kill" on one location.  
The farmer had notified me that he had used the systemic imidiclorprid.  
I offered up this info to the [Board Of Directors] of [the American 
Beekeeping Federation] as a possible way to clarify this particular cause 
to CCD.  My thinking was that tests could be done on my bees without the 
complications of varroa mites or controls, viruses, etc.  

Of course within 48 hours we were getting calls from all over the country!  
We are fine.

I contacted Dennis and Mary Ann at Penn State and they had me do a few
things.  
For one, we put out combs and they were robbed out in a few hours. 
Two, just the field force was damaged and three, all hives recovered 
quickly.  We have just had another coffee bloom and I have been checking 
for damage and have seen none to date."

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