From: "Dave Cushman" <dave.cushman@lineone.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:16:59 -0000
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Clean wax for Organic Production?

Hi Erik

----- Original Message -----
From: Erik Osterlund <honeybee@elgon.se>

> Dark wax doesn't matter much for the bees as far as I have learnt.

I agree but it is beekeepers that buy wax not the bees, and they are
conditioned to light colours.

> Why do
> you suspect DDT?. The wax would be from loghives mainly I suppose, not too
> close to farmland

DDT is still very widely used in the third world not just on farmland.
Wildlife has been sampled, it is not whether or not DDT is present as it is
present in all samples. The question is how much is present and from a
toxity point of view how much of the breakdown products are in the
environment after sixty years of its continous use.

Regards From:- Dave Cushman, G8MZY
Beekeeping and Bee Breeding, website
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman