[Pollinator] Bees as "disease carrying pests"

[Matthew Shepherd]

Hi everyone,



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.



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.



Obviously, bees can carry diseases between bees, but that wasn’t the thrust
of this public information brochure.



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!)

Matthew





*From:* Matthew Shepherd [mailto:matthew.shepherd at xerces.org]
*Sent:* Friday, March 16, 2018 2:44 PM
*To:* Pollinator list <pollinator at lists.sonic.net> <
pollinator at lists.sonic.net>
*Subject:* Bees as "disease carrying pests"



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.



Matthew
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