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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kelly Anderson<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Bee dieoff cause found?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>Mainly posting this for Spike, since he has an interest:<br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/us/bee-deaths-may-stem-from-virus-study-says.html?_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/us/bee-deaths-may-stem-from-virus-study-says.html?_r=0</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Has anyone else heard of a virus (RNA or otherwise) jumping from a plant to an animal? Very cool every time they think they've found something contributing to this apparently very complex problem.<span style='color:#1F497D'> –</span>Kelly<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kelly consider what we have done with the European honeybee. We built hives for commercial pollination. We invented methods of taking the bees and putting them on trucks, hauling them around to chase whatever crop is in bloom. We brought bees together, offering bee diseases an opportunity to spread all over. Think about it: the European honeybee has been around for millions of years, but only in the past 100 or so have we loaded them on trucks and hauled them all over.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bees have specialties. One job a bee can do is work as a robber. Robber bees go into other hives and devour honey. This offers yet another vector for bee diseases and pathogens when all these hives are collected on a truck.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Consider the bees that are used as a means of smuggling dope or people. These hives are fed with sugar water or corn syrup, but never leave the truck. What happens then? We provide RNA viruses with a static population to completely infect, as well as a means of travelling around to agricultural centers, where the smuggled dope and alien workers are delivered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We have no justification for believing that a radical change in the way bees are used will not result in a change in the balance of bee pathogens to bee immune systems. We can see how the bee’s natural defenses can be overwhelmed by all the new opportunities for attack by viruses and pathogens.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>