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  • From: "Hicks, William M" <will.hicks AT ncagr.gov>
  • To: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: "ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] what's the question?
  • Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 16:52:05 +0000

Amen!!

On Jul 5, 2013, at 3:42 PM, "Randall Austin" <ra41717 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/5/2013 2:52 PM, Lewis Cauble wrote:
>> If it were an easy question to answer, we wouldn't still be discussing it.
>
> The important thing is, what is the QUESTION? If the question is, unless
> interventions are made, what is the cause of hive dwindling and death
> for MY hives here in Orange County, the answer is varroa mites. It
> boggles my mind that there are a few folks who spend all their energy
> debating & protesting & petitioning what about what "may" be randomly
> killing bees in Canada or Oregon or Florida yet they refuse to accept
> the undeniable fact that they are letting their own bees succumb to a
> well-known, well-studied, well-understood, universal affliction that can
> be fairly easily controlled.
>
> That's a bit like telling your kids, "don't go play on the freeway
> unless you put on sunscreen!" Then blaming the fact their kids were
> squashed on the depletion of the ozone layer.
>
> Psychologists warn us not to confuse the unusual for the normal. The
> unusual makes the headlines; the normal does not. The reason that
> bee-kills go viral on the internet is because they are unusual, in fact
> very rare. Varroa decline and collapse is endemic, an everyday
> occurrence, so people pay no attention to it. Go figure.
>
> Randall Austin, a guy who uses appropriate varroa treatments and has
> healthy, productive bees, low if any winter losses, a honey harvest to
> be proud of... and does so year after year after year.
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