Hi Claude, Interesting that Koppert endeavors to dismiss Robbin's premise when in their CEQA filed a few years ago with CDFA to allow importation of Bombus impatiens they identified protocols to mitigate possible pathogenic transfer to native species by either freezing or drowning the colonies following the bees completing pollinating services. Kathy *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html