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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Hi everyone,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I just wanted to send a follow up to my original email because the image didn’t survive distribution to everyone—maybe no one got it. I wasn’t entirely sure whether the image file would get through—I knew that some systems strip images—but assumed it would have been rejected if images weren’t allowed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">For those of you who can’t see the image, it declares “protect your family from disease carrying pests” in all caps, and includes an icon of a bee between a rat and a midge. Hmmm, not really what we like to see. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Obviously, bees can carry diseases between bees, but that wasn’t the thrust of this public information brochure.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">For those who really want to see the graphic, I’m happy to email it individually if you contact me. (Fingers crossed that I don’t get swamped with hundreds of requests!)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Matthew</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Matthew Shepherd [mailto:<a href="mailto:matthew.shepherd@xerces.org">matthew.shepherd@xerces.org</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 16, 2018 2:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> Pollinator list <<a href="mailto:pollinator@lists.sonic.net">pollinator@lists.sonic.net</a>> <<a href="mailto:pollinator@lists.sonic.net">pollinator@lists.sonic.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Bees as "disease carrying pests"</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">We were sent this image by someone in Riverside in southern California. It’s a brochure produced by their local vector control district that declares bees to be “disease carrying pests”! Obviously, it is referring to Africanized honey bees, which can be a hazard to people, but it is remarkable how bees can be so misrepresented.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Matthew</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="662" height="539" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D3BD45.D5651140"></p></div></body></html>