What has changed?
I have started commenting on ET. Migeru asked for a Post. Unaware of your prior post, I responded before you did. I would think you would be more qualified, as actually having hands on experience with the subject.
Other changes: Germany has de-certified some Bayer products; the role of the averroe destructor mites has been identified; and the Israeli Acute Paralytic Virus has been identified. I have also seen an enhanced interst in other bee species and other insect pollinators in response to CCD. If and when I find the references I will post them.
Thanks for the comment. Without it I would have remained unaware of your prior good works. If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
It is becoming more and more clear that pesticides in particular and industrial agriculture in general have consequences that serve to make commercial honey bees vulnerable to more and more disease vectors, even when they don't kill the bees directly. AIPV may well be only one or only the first of new disease vectors that prove damaging to insects with weakened immune systems.
I intend to contact my senators and representatives to push for legislation that applies the legal concept of "joint and several liability" at least to this specific problem. I should write some LTEs as well. I have no illusions that this will be well received. I just can't not do it.
I also intend to add more bee and butterfly plants to my 1.25 acres and, next year to see if I can sustain a small bee hive. Act locally. If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
