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<DIV><EM>Thanks to Barry Thompson for this update - good day.</EM></DIV>
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<DIV>Paul Harvey, on his noon broadcast on Monday, April 16, had a lengthy piece on CCD and its apparent reduction of honey bee populations "not only in the United States" but Canada, Wales, and in multiple European countries. He included the well-known Einstein comment that "when the bees disappear, the world has about four years." Unfortunately, PH also mentioned the studies from Landau (GE) regarding cell phone (transmission) disruption of honey bee orientation, thereby giving credence to incompletely understood data (my opinion.) The broadcast will not be available in text until 1315 EDT, so I can't pass on much that is useful. Nonetheless, the "press" continues re "CCD". Research thus far hasn't progress much toward definition of one or more etiologies. Losses continue here in the East from a variety of circumstances (weather being no help presently to the splitting of colonies for increase and replacement.)</DIV>
<DIV>42 degrees F. with winds to 50 mph here all night and morning; guess that I won't attempt to open colonies today (but I'd better check to see if high water or winds have dumped any over, exposing bees to inclement conditions.)</DIV>
<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Barry Thompson</DIV>
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