Hehe. Get involved in a bunch of things and see your name in the paper. I haven’t had my name in the paper this often since, well, I wrote for the Aggie. Take a read, the author did a good job summarizing all the points we brought up, and balancing them with information she got from other sources. Although I don’t remember ever using the word “instincts” as quoted, she captured the crux of my point about the many factors that could be involved. At the time, we didn’t know about the NYT article Monday, that suggested that there may be a specific pathogen involved, that they killed with gamma radiation. So the migratory beekeeping issue could be involved, and then the parasites could be vectors for it, and the point about beekeeping practices brought up by Robert Thorp (which we mentioned at the Bee Collective meeting as well) I think bolsters the idea that there’s a “Perfect Storm” in our swarms.
Honeybees disappearing throughout world - Science & Tech
P.S. I might be in the aggie again next week, I’m writing a letter to the editor about this piece of dross.
