From: "huestis" <buzzybee@capital.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:01:38 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: How do you tell diseases apart

Hi Dee,

> Terramycin usage, though use of it shortens the life of our honeybees by
> half.

Could you list the effects TM has on bees (specifically)? Cutting the life
span in half is a staggering number Dee. Glad I quite using it quite some
time ago. The stuff is just a quick fix, yet doesn't ever really fix the
problem.

> One of the reasons we stopped using TM paddies or even TM in our colonies,
> when I finally realized what I was reading and it hit home, we were losing
> half of our bees lives every time we used the stuff, besides making chaulk
> brood worse and even inducing chaulk.Just a case of swapping one disease for
> another. So what is really gained?

Yes and with all the other problems beekeepers face cutting their life span
in half is like driving the last nail in the coffin.

Clay