[Taxacom] honeybees dying off

[Ken Kinman]

Dear All,
      Correction to my post.  The name is spelled Nosema ceranae (not 
caranae).  I decided to try searching the USDA website, and no hits there 
either.  What other government agency might one expect to be involved in 
this problem?

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>From: "Ken Kinman" <kinman at hotmail.com>
>To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>Subject: [Taxacom] honeybees dying off
>Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:45:12 +0000
>
>Dear All,
>     I was surprised recently that  honeybee colony losses in North America 
>were being blamed on cellphone radiation.  This just didn't make much sense 
>to me given the relatively rapid onset of the problem.  The spread of 
>Nosema caranae throughout the world would seem to make more sense, but when 
>I searched the CDC site for Nosema caranae, I got no hits.  Wouldn't the 
>CDC be investigating such an important threat to American agriculture?
>       ------Ken Kinman
>

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