[Pollinator] Is CCD really just starting in 2005/2006? Previouswork on imida

[Black Cat Honey Waite]

After reading this from Victoria and looking at the links and other googled 
info including stuff from Bayer itself I really wonder if this is not the 
main cause of the problem with CCD. Could many bee keepers be making it 
worse with the chemical treatments for mites being added to this? I have not 
had any problem as of yet, knock on a wooden hive body.. I do everything 
organic and natural and have really stayed on top of the little mite issues 
that have come up.

Thanks and TTFN,
Richard Waite.
Black Cat Honey & Products
  413-626-7136
  62 Parker Street
  Winchester NH 03470
  www.BlackCatHoney.com




>From: Victoria MacPhail <vmacphai at uoguelph.ca>
>To: pollinator at coevolution.org
>Subject: [Pollinator] Is CCD really just starting in 2005/2006? 
>Previouswork on	imidacloprid?
>Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:58:05 -0400
>
>I have been following the latest theme with interest, and had been
>wondering when imidacloprid would be raised.
>
>When I was an undergraduate student in 2002, I worked with Dr. Jim
>Kemp and Dick Rogers in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
>(Eastern Canada) investigating possible reasons (incl. diseases, food
>sources, pesticides, management practices, among others) behind the
>disappearance and overall decrease in honeybee populations in the
>Maritimes.  What had initated their research in the previous year
>(2001) was the concern that imidacloprid, trade name Admire, used in
>furrow in potato fields, persisted in the soil and came up in the
>clover flowers two years later, which then killed off the foraging
>bees.  I believe a similar concern with imidacloprid had been raised
>in France under the trade name Gaucho and used on sunflowers.
>
>My understanding is that beekeepers in the Maritimes noticed in the
>late 1990s or early 2000s that bees were disappearing/dying and
>colonies crashing unexpectedly, with some beekeepers having limited
>losses and some having almost total losses.  They heard reports from
>France of the similar symptoms, said that that was their problem too,
>accused imidacloprid and the producer (Bayer), who then got Jim and
>Dick involved in the investigation.
>
>I found an old newspaper article on-line saying essentially the same
>thing: May 25, 2002 - National Post,
>http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/02-05-27.htm.  You could probably find
>other sources too.
>
>The background information I had heard and learned about in 2002, and
>in 2003 when I was only peripherally involved in the project, sounds
>just like what is supposedly only just happening this year in the US.
>Now, I am new to the field and may be way off base, but to me this
>sounds like the same thing, so why are most of these reports saying
>this is a new phenomenon, happening either only this year or maybe
>last year too?  Are these two different problems/scenarios, or is the
>media just having a field day with it this year?
>
>Anyway, just another thought to mull over.
>
>Victoria MacPhail
>
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