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  • From: "Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] colony collapse
  • Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 18:47:11 -0700

I wondered, Bill, if some organic growers had suffered losses. Latest data I
could find and trust was almost a year old. I suppose someone is doing
this, but it would be very interesting to see if there were differences
between unaffected organic hives and affected organic hives nearby each
other; as cultural practices are similar and nearly all following such
practices have been unaffected, there would be only a few variant factors to
look at as suspicious.

~ Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of William C. Garthright
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 3:55 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] colony collapse


> There are only guesses as to why the organic hives are immune.
>


Not immune, apparently, not according to the article:

"No single beekeeping management method could be blamed. Large
commercial beekeepers were as likely to suffer from high losses as
were small operations or hobbyists. The symptoms affected stationary
beekeepers as well as migratory ones. Even some organic beekeepers
were affected."


But that ("even some") does seem to imply that organic beekeepers are
less affected by the disorder.

Bill






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