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Sean Connery Impersonator: Call it whatever you like, the question is, does it work?
Well hey BRG3, as long as it works, we don't care what the trolls say.
I'll check it out.
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Sean Connery Impersonator: Call it whatever you like, the question is, does it work?
Sorry, I've only made 4 posts on Saiga-12. 3 of those were about my .45ACP conversion.
I really like the G3 adapter for the Saiga. That easily solves the expensive, low-cap problem.
I was thinking that a FAL magazine could be trimmed and have a new top spotwelded to it. Make the new top out of heavier gauge steel and shape it like the Saiga mag top. Braze or weld your tabs on for the trunnion notch and mag catch and you'd be set. OTOH, This would require fabrication of several mag tops while the G3 adapter is a one time deal.
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Like he said tho, then you're stuck w/that mag.... I like to think of "what if I need to acquire a mag in SHTF situation?" I wanna common or relatively common magazine... an M14 or FAL mag or a G3 would be better than a full custom deal?
I like the way you think BattlerifleG3. I'd be afraid to mess with the trunion too, especially on a .308 rifle! Nice work. Glad you posted the pics!!
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If you're going to cut up a mag, do a G3 one. They're the cheapest mags out there by far. One reason I picked them. Otherwise, might have ended up doing an M14 mag.
Sorry about the misidentification, Rhino. Must have confused you with someone else.
Here's a thread with some of the latest developments. I'm on the MkII of the G3 mag adaptor.
Is this adapter going to be marketed or any plans to have the dimensions published for home-brew types?
Where's the thread?
"The way of the warrior is death, this means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. It means nothing more than this, it means to see things through, being resolved."---Yamamoto Tsunemoto's Hagakure
Ha, I'm retarded.
Right now I'm in the process of a short production run of the adaptor, which still requires significant work on the owner's gun by the owner. Based on results, I may eventually take the final step to a Mark III, but that one would probably not be a production thing, since my current idea is pretty drastic.


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"I didn't think there was anything to it," Manning said today of the speculation that his arm was tired. "I still, in practices, thought I was throwing the ball well. I felt no fatigue. Obviously, sometimes during the course of the season you may not realize it, but today (my) arm felt good. (I) threw some deep ones and didnt have to struggle to get it out there. It was just coming out well."
Speculation became rampant that Manning's arm was fatigued as he registered four straight games with passer ratings below 80. He hasn't thrown a touchdown since Week 7 against Washington when he hit Victor Cruz for the game-winning 77-yard touchdown pass. Since then he has four interceptions without a score.
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PS I certainly didn't expect my query to generate so much activity!
PS I certainly didn't expect my query to generate so much activity!
I am betting that anyone that studies the science of polling will tell you that the results of voluntary polls such as this tend to get skewed because the answerers dont tend to be a representative cross section but may well be heavily weighted towards the extremes on either end of the spectrum, each wanting to make sure their case is being made and hopefully with honest data. The marketplace, though, never lies and this late winter and spring was most certainly a sellers market for bees. Clearly there were some higher than expected bee shortages.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
It is a reasonable question and your reaction does indicate that it is a common one and apparently a touchy one, too. Perhaps the Beekeeping Glossary should have an entry for it: "Commercial Beekeeper: You become a commercial beekeeper when you decide that's what you are" or something like that. Or not. Perhaps just "Don't Ask."
And with that, I will not pursue it further.
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We had a whole Thread arguing about what defines the term ommercial beekeeper and another arguing about whether there were any or very many TreatmentFree Commercial Beekeepers. You may have heard the old saying that if you ask 10 beekeepers a question you will get 11 answers? Well, to answer your question, in my opinion, it takes more than simply doing business w/ your bees. The majority of your income should be made thru beekeeping. It's what you do for a living. The American Beekeepers Federation considers 300 colonies as the number which puts one in the Commercial Category for dues paying members. Many people will say 500 plus. Someone w/ 20 hives, selling honey, selling nucs, and selling queens is not, imo, a commercial beekeeper. Doesn't mean you aren't a beekeeper.
Mark Berninghausen
Regards, Barry
Thanks for the link, Barry. Perhaps it should be in the glossary next to "Commercial Beekeeper". :-)
In further hindsight, perhaps my question would have been more accurate if I'd asked what the group that put out the survey considered "commercial" for their purposes.
Mark, I don't have any dogs in that fight, just curiosity. Part of my thoughts on it had to do with the idea of being a professional--once you start getting paid for something you go from being amateur to professional kind of thing, but I recognized that definition wasn't a good fit. In the end it's probably more about semantics and opinion than anything else after a somewhat vague point when so many different factors can be cited and weighted differently depending upon the point of view.
Tom, We are okay. No problems. In beekeeping there are terms which we use that mean things to those whose avocation is beekeeping. I hope I don't seem to be talking down to you. I don't mean to. We have a certain understanding of what the terms "hobbyist" (or small scale), "sideliner", and "commercial" beekeeper means. There probably is a "Dictionary of Beekeeping Terms" out there somewhere, maybe on beesource itself, but mostly it's an understanding. Some people may say to people outside of beekeeping circles that they are a Professional Beekeeper, but I haven't heard that term amongst beekeepers. Welcome to beesource. I hope you stick around.
Mark Berninghausen
No worries, Mark. Every profession, career field, hobby, etcetera has its own language. I'm still learning Beekeeper. I like the bees, and so does my wife. We've found that beekeepers are a friendly lot. I'll be here a while.
I'm disappointed that it is the middle of July and there is still no final report from Bee Informed. The only thing they seem to have posted are the preliminary results from back in early May. It may be silly of me, but I was kinda hoping to use the results to help point me in the right direction for my winter planning.
Rusty Hills Farm -- home of AQHA A Rusty Zipper and Rusty's Bees.
You were looking to a National Survey to decide how to manage your bees? Why? How would that work?
Mark Berninghausen
Thanks to last year's survey, I 'll be using upper entrances for winter. Thanks to last year's survey, I didn't bother experimenting with small cell or FGMO. Thanks to last year's survey, I changed my approach to SHB. Saved some time and resources.
edited to add: I think the biggest impact for me was seeing how little difference y'get from using or not using options that have set off absolute firestorms on these boards between the various factions. Everything seems to work or not work about equally. That was very freeing for me. It allowed me to just go with my own gut on most stuff, knowing that my choices wouldn't be any better or any worse than anybody elses. LOLOL
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Rusty Hills Farm -- home of AQHA A Rusty Zipper and Rusty's Bees.
I found the surveys very interesting too. You do have to bear in mind that even though commercial beekeepers have the largest representation in the survey, the commercial guys who actually responded are a very small minority of the commercial industry.
But that said, I took great reassurance from the fact that of the respondents, those who treated their hives didn't have significantly different survival rates from those who did no treatment. This was a welcome bit of information to me, because you hear, over and over on forums like this, that if you don't treat, you are an evil bee abuser who doesn't care if his bees live or die.
I think it's human nature to want to do something when things go wrong, and sometimes, we may be doing things that actually make matters worse than they would be if we did nothing. There's certainly plenty of examples of such mistakes from the past... Theodoric of York comes to mind in that regard.
Anyway, any statistician would tell you that the survey is fundamentally flawed. Still, some data is better than no data, and there is data to be mined from the survey results.
for those who took the survey, you may recall that a lot of management option questions offered the response of 'i'd rather not say'.
answers like this or not wanting to be surveyed at all for a similar reason is why the results have to be viewed as biased or at least not necessarily representative of the universe of managed bees.
still, the trends that are borne out are somewhat helpful.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Wondering when they are ever going to get past the preliminary results to the final results?
"Thinking Inside The Box"
Mark, they do get very good info on management practices when they get around to publishing it all. That's where I get the info I quote all the time about how different appliances and methods don't work.
Looking forward to seeing the final draft. Will it be published on beesource.com when it comes available?
Mark Berninghausen
I will link to it when I find it. You can see previous years' data already if you're interested.
Here it is Solomon, long time coming but I suspect they have better data this time.
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Look i have said it time and time again and until proven wrong i will continue to say it. so bookmark this if you want so you can have me eat my crow at the end of the season, i will do it willingly with some BBQ and hot sauce... i'm West-Indian i love BBQ sauce.
I am not sold on Bennett and i have no clue where to begin with Robinson, i actually have hope for the kid i didn't mind the pick it was a sigh of relief actually that TE was finally addressed in some way.
i honestly believe that with a play making tight end this Offense can take the next step in being a juggernaut. think back to how great shockey was pre diva. now take that shockey and pair him with the Eli of last year. Man!!!
i compare it to witten and romo. romo stats only look so good most of the time cause witten gets that ridiculous YAC. witten is a tough son of a ***** that's a consistent 750yd+ TE with 41 TD's in 9 seasons. COME ON MAN!!! we need a guy like that and stop with this utilize the TE position up until two years ago we were a run first team now were amongst the best passing the ball, times changing we need to upgrade in the first couple picks of 2013 draft.
with that said...
Tyler Eifert, Notre Dame, 6-6/251- 4.70/40
?good hands/ uses body to keep ball away from corners can jump ball with them too, burns line backers. mediocre burst off line, but good progressive speed, can get more consistent with his blocking ability shows flashes of goodness. he's my number 1 so far
Jake Stoneburner, Ohio State, 6-5/245 - 4.71/40?
[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzm2ZpGDTmY[/link] Look at 1:37 LMFAO
This kid can Block very good and he can get open in his route and make good catches. can add 5-10 pounds on his frame to make the transition to the pro's but even at 245 he pushing D-linemen back.
Philip Lutzenkirchen, Auburn, 6-5/250 - 4.70/40
My eyes are going to be glued to this kid upcoming collegiate season
Michael Williams, Alabama 6-6/270 - 4.77/40
With that height and size and speed i am definitely intrigued, i also read that he great blocker than helped the tides running game flourish, had 8 catches for 100 yards and a TD last season that's a 12.5 yd avg pretty good if u ask me. can't wait to see what he does this year
Zach Ertz, Stanford, 6-6/249?
Verdict is still out on this kid, hes rated as the 2nd best TE, but i haven't seen that to say he is. played behind fleener so we will see this year what he can do.
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#9. New Orleans Saints - Sam Montgomery - LSU
New Orleans could use a pass-rusher. Will Smith is getting older, and a lack of pass rush has hurt the Saints.
Montgomery has been a leader of the Tigers' fierce defensive line. He totaled 49 tackles with 13.5 tackles for a loss, nine sacks and one forced fumble in 2011. Montgomery had 18 tackles with six tackles for a loss and two sacks as a freshman.
The 6-foot-4, 260-pounder added weight this offseason and that should help him to remain a 4-3 end prospect. He has the frame to continue to get bigger and will add weight as he ages.
The added bulk that Montgomery packed on over the offseason looks like it is helping with shedding blocks. He also looks more explosive as he is another year removed from his knee injury. Montgomery has 15 tackles, 6.5 tackles for a loss and two sacks this year.
The Saints are getting zero pressure on the quarterback. Cameron Jordan is good against the run, but he's been a bust as a pass-rusher thus far. Will Smith, meanwhile, looks like a shell of his former self. He's due $10 million in 2013, so he obviously won't be back.
New Orleans Saints: Akeem Spence, DT, Illinois - Spence is a quick gap-shooting defensive tackle who can cause disruption at the point of attack. The junior has 22 tackles, two tackles for a loss, .5 sacks and a forced fumble so far this year. He had a decent 2011 season with 69 tackles, 5.5 tackles for a loss, 1.5 sacks and a forced fumble.
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I don't want Sam. Sorry. I think he's overrated
There's a giant chasm in talent from a top 10 pick to a #20 range.
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Category 1 was all the studies which concluded that neonics were responsible for the wave of global bee deaths
Category 2 was all the studies which gave neonics a free pass.
96% of the studies fell into category one: i.e. they concluded neonics ARE responsible for CCD/ mass bee deaths
4% gave neonics a free pass to the profit margin.
Every one of the 96% of studies that said neonics were responsible was either INDEPENDENT or government funded
All of the 4% that exonerated neonics were funded by Bayer & Syngenta - i.e. they found their own poisons 'not guilty'.
Do we ask Ford or Toyota to rule on the safety of their own cars? no we ask an independent transport agency/
Do we ask Philip Morris to tell us whether Tobacco causes cancer? No we ask the American Surgeon General
Do we ask Boeing to decide on whether the Dreamliner batteries are safe? No we ask the Federal Aviation Authority
Allowing a pesticide manufacturer to tell us whether he thinks his poisons are safe for bees or children is like asking a drug dealer whether heroin is safe for kids.
All of this retrospective debate is missing the entire point. Bayer should have PROVEN their pesticides were safe BEFORE they were given a license; they didn't and the EPA - headed up by a Monsanto Exec - gave them a rubber stamp on Clothianidin, despite the EPA's own scientists telling them NOT to license it because of its extreme toxicity for honey bees.
Over 16,000 new pesticides have been licensed by the EPA since 1980 using the 'conditional registration' loophole (no testing).
It's a total joke. They may as well sack all the EPA staff and give the janitor a rubber stamp - and tell him just to OK anything that comes in the door. That is exactly what happens now; nothing ever gets turned down. There is no 'regulation'.
You've staked your life on this, no matter what results are found you'll never back down off of this. Your rants make you look manic and unstable. You do more to hurt your cause than help. But that's fine, your cause is bunk and you're doing a better job showing it than those who disagree could. I'm certain this is one of those attack dog defences you were prattling on about earlier, but I'm not certain which one. I was busy cashing my checks from Monsanto, Bayer and whatever other boogieman paranoa you're attacking others on.
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Ninja, is not in the dictionary. Well played Ninja's, well played...
"whatever other boogieman paranoa you're attacking others on" - calling me paranoid -is NOT an attack? Reasoned debate?
I have not 'staked my life on this': I just can't abide being lied to, when I know the Science is correct - and good enough for 27 European countries to have banned these nerve agent poisons from the food supply.
I can't imagine what your 'agenda' is, other than that you defend the continuing use of systemic neonitonoids:
all the time.
My only agenda here is the truth - and wanting to live in the country I grew up in, where bees, birds, butterflies and frogs can still exist. I don't want to live in the world that you and Bayer and Monsanto and Syngenta seem to want: a country without any of those creatures, where the only value of any kind is 'the bottom line'.
Bees are the canary in the coalmine, and if people don't wake up and realise what is going on, a lot more than bees is at stake.
By the way, if anyone is 'ranting' around here, I would say that is the pot calling the kettle black. Have you looked in the mirror lately - that's a ranter there if ever I saw one.
I am interested in the exact nature of the conflict of interest accused in the previous posts. just exactly what is known about borderbeeman and his interests that causes a conflict of interest? As far as I can tell there is only one interest and that is providing evidence that Nics are responsible for bee deaths. his opponents than attempt to inflate or distort this fact by saying it is this or that. in fact it is none of those things. it is nothing more than evidence submitted. those that oppose consistently cannot address those evidences but choose to attack the messenger. They want to distort the issue with comments such as "That is nto proof that nics cause CCD" when the information was never submitted as proof of anything. it was submitted as evidence that it might be. I find such distortions intentionally deceitful and those that use them liars. So you may want to tend to your credibility with as much insight as you tend to others.
I do not agree with every word that comes out of the mouth of those that oppose nics. But I do not agree with one of the words coming form the other point of view. I have not heard an intelligent credible defense of the accusations toward Bayer yet. It is unreasonable to assume a pesticide will harm bees? No. Should it be required that Bayer proves that their do not? Yes. Have they? No. they have nice little dance they do around the fire but nothing else.
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Science proceeds by publication in peer-reviewed journals; in other words, a scientist must have his theory criticised and taken apart and put back together again by his peers - his fellow scientists. Only if it 'stacks up' after that criticism is it accepted for publication.
However, it is almost impossible to get a scientist to ever say : "this causes this - and I have 100% proof"
It does happen but it is far more common that after a couple of years of work, a scientist will say:
well we studied CCD and we found that neonics kill bees in the lab at doses of 3parts per billion;
neonics are present in pollen and nectar of canola and corn at 3ppb to 5ppb
and we see the bees bringing back large amounts of canola and corn pollen
and we see hives collapse when exposed to these crops
but you will never get them to say neonics cause CCD - because there is always another 'factor' to look at.
The Science Debate is in fact a deliberate diversionary tactic on the part of pesticide manufacturers.
They know that you can ALWAYS get a scientist to pick holes in another study. The process never ends.
The French beekeepers knew within a week that neonic treated sunflowers killed a million bee colonies; they were there; they saw it happen; it had never happened before; and they found imidacloprid in the sunflower nectar, in the pollen, in the dead bees, in the bee-bread, in the nurse bees, in the larvae. It was everywhere.
So they took a science-based decision and banned the neonics in France. CCD stopped.
They had varroa and viruses in France for 30 years before CCD arrived in1994. They still have varroa and viruses, but since they banned neoncs, they have no CCD.
Go figure.
How is your deductive reasoning working today?
Should I tend to read bibles, and 96% are Christian and 4% are korans, guess which one??
Asigning a value to a document and claiming you read more of one than the other is ludicrous. Science is not a popularity contest. its facts....... and the facts in this case are simple... all the testing i have seen that "prove neonics are bad" involve acute doses, captive bees and single source feedings. same as if you lock me in a liquor store........ all the once that show normal field testing and realistic exposures show nothing.... and MILLIONS of real world hives here in the midwest in both countries show the same.... an occasional drink will not kill me.... steady diet of nothing else will
As for Ford and Boeing.... the ruling bodies on those companines have done NOTHING but regulate.. both of them are innovators........ and when you study closely tobacco (and yes it was a scam on the us... in the 50s and 60s the surgeon general supported it... so claiming some "supior knowledge" of a ruling body is the definition of insanity
And the coupe de gra?? the comete its called "Bug life"?????? Like asking PETA to rate roast beef sandwiches.........!
Hey, wait a second... which of the Four (or is it Five now?) Dog defenses did you use on me that time? I sure hope I'm getting them all. I get paid ovetime by Bayer, Monsanto and Syngenta if I collect all five!
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> Hilarious! yep, you got me. I don't start post after post of anti Neo-nic rants... or musicals.
Those of you wondering what this is about should check out this thread:
Reality, right in front of your eyes .... You just can't make stuff up that is better than this!
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borderbeeman you have started 79 treads, all which has something to do with pesticides. That sound like ranting to me.
Can we start a petition to ban borderbeeman from this site. I live in the middle of the corn belt and have had no problems.
> borderbeeman you have started 79 treads, all which has something to do with pesticides.
Maybe we could get a little diversity, please. How about a few more posts on chemtrails?
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Ah yes, chemtrails. Please bask us with your brilliance on chemtrails won't you Borderbeeman?
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He has to be helped to understand that there's room for discussion about this; that the issue is far from settled. And he has to understand that the other people here care about bees too, and aren't "the enemy". He will come to understand neither if he's just kicked out.
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I don't know whether you have noticed - but THIS part of the Forum is called:
CCD and Pesticides Discussion.
What did you expect to find here?
A discussion about the ancient origins of Neolithic Hioney Hunters in the Namib Desert?
How about the origins of the name 'Beowulf' - the first great hero to ever have his name written down in English, in the 6the Century - it means Bee Wolf in Olde English.
I came here to share with you a European and global perspective on the emerging science and ne regulatory actions on the issue of neonicotinoids and bee deaths; they were recently BANNED in 27 countries - did you notice?
Glad you have no bee problems in the corn belt. Strange that my bee farmer friend from the Mid West just lost 2,100 out of 3,200 hives this Spring, which he attributes to his bee stocking up on corn pollen in an area just like yours.
I get 'moderated' permanently, merely for defending myself against constant personal attacks - but the attackers are actually ENCOURAGED by the Moderator.
Just a small correction I don't 'dismiss varroa mites' at all. The point is that Pettis's discovery and Cedric Alaux's discovery give a perfect explanation/ hypothesis as to why bees, whose immune systems have been destroyed by neonics, will succumb to varroa, viruses, bacteria and fungal infections.
Neonics are the HIV of the bee world.
My varroa -education began with Bayer's Bayvarol strips in 1998, and they worked until the varroa became resistant.
I then tried Thymol patties - and that worked. Oxalic Acid became standard treatment here around 2005 and Formic Acid came in around 2010.
Formic Acid evaporation works extremely well - it kills varroa in sealed cells and - as as I can judge it does not harm the bees or the queens if used properly. I strongly recommend everyone check out Formic Acid treatment for varroa.
It works so well that if used twice a year - in Spring and again in Autumn, I rarely even see more than a few varroa these days. in 1998 when I first got hit I had thousands in one hive. However, it still did not die and recovered quite well.
So by all means lets morph "suggests" into "are"
Further if Anyoneis actually interested in fact instead of fantasy:
Statistics, inaccurate numbers, biased opinions, somewhere maybe the truth resides:
I have included links to the studies and articles so anyone who wants can read them for themselves.
From "Buglife" The Invertebrate Charity":
"Of the 33 papers that could be categorised 31 (94%) of the papers contained evidence that neonicotinoids would or could have significant environmental impacts above and beyond what was previously known. Only two (6%) of the studies provide reassuring evidence that neonicotinoids are not damaging the environment or not likely to damage the environment."
So, maybe it wasn't, 55 papers but 33.
Additionally from the same group:
We have reviewed the 41 papers and put them into two categories –
1) Study suggests worrying environmental impacts above and beyond what was known when we produced our 2009 report
2) 2) Study suggests no effect or an effect that indicates that environmental impacts are lower than expected.
In addition a number of papers were considered where either the outcome was not conclusively in category 1 or 2 or the experimental methodology was flawed or clearly not relevant to the real world."
Okay, so maybe the number of papers was not 55 or 33 but 41, at this point, who knows?
Then let us look at the first two "1's which by The Charity's guidelines "suggest a worrying environmental impact"
First study listed as a "1" was titled "Interactions between Nosema microspores and a neonicotinoid weaken honeybees"
The study concludes that: "Our results demonstrated interactive effects between microsporidia and pesticides that weaken honeybee health."
Just for information, the Nosema only infected bees died at rates of about 29% while the neonicotinoid exposed bees died at a rate of about 16%. Bees that saw neither died at a rate of about 6%. Those exposed to both died at rates of about 46%. (After 10 days). Incidentally, when infected with Nosema, the bees consumed more of the tainted sucrose, which undoubtedly led to additional doses of neonicotinoid. So in effect the major contributor to mortality was the Nosema, not the imidacloprid.
Also from an article in American Bee Journal and Bee Culture that looked at the first study (Alaux et al.): http://bees.msu.edu/2011/effects-of-...nd-physiology/
"Alaux et al. (2010) studied whether a neonicotinoid (imidacloprid) and Nosema (a mixture of both species) would show a synergistic interaction in affecting honey bees. They found that the combination of both agents caused the highest mortality and food consumption."
From the same paper:
"In a more recent study, Vidau et al. (2011) found a similar synergistic effect between pesticides and N. Ceranae. After being exposed to sublethal doses of fipronil or thiacloprid, N. ceranae-infected bees showed a higher mortality than in uninfected ones."
So this tells us that other pesticides that are approved for use result in the same mortality to bees as does the neonicotinoid. So the study in effect says that the neonicotinoids have no more effect than do other approved pesticides that our bees encounter in the field. Pesticides that will most likely be used to replace the neonicotinoids.
The second study:
"Oral thiamethoxam delivered at the highest dose (one-fifth of the LD50 corresponding to 30 _g/L) had no significant effect on mortality. Similarly, chronic oral exposure of honeybees to either imidacloprid or its plant metabolites induced no lethal effect at concentrations of 20 and 40 _g/L [26]. Acetamiprid 1 _g/bee (one-tenth of the LD50) induced the highest observed mortality level (30%), but this level was not statistically different from that of the control group."
Also from the study:
"However, we failed to find any relevant biological effect of thiamethoxam on the honeybee after acute sublethal treatment [20], and we observed only a limited impairment of sucrose sensitivity and olfactory learning after chronic treatment (present study)."
So after looking at the first two studies that the Charity rated "1", troubling, neither has anything really conclusive that indicates that neonicotinoids are worse than what they will be replaced with.
It appears to me some sensationalism and number inflation on the anti-neonicotinoids group part. Don't misunderstand me, they may be right in the end. But for the first two studies, we would be better served dealing with N. Ceranae, than worrying about neonicotinoids. It really appears that the newer more virulent strain of Nosema combines its effects on top of ANY pesticide load to lead to colony death. This is not a smoking gun for CCD. In reality it appears that neonicotinoids are less harmful to honeybees than many of the alternatives.
Less harmful is certainly still harmful; but it seems to me the battle needs to be taken to nosema.
The biggest problem with focusing solely on neonicotinoids is that it's basically misleading. There doesn't appear to be anything special about "neonics" compared to other pesticides. Whether neonicotinoids stay or go, the larger group of "pesticides" will continue to kill bees because, well, that's what pesticides do; so we need to be doing more to raise awareness of pesticides in general. What's going to happen when neonicotinoids are put on long-term moratorium because of our efforts, and bee deaths don't plummet significantly (beyond typical deviations) because everyone simply replaces them with other pesticides that kill just as easily? What's going to happen is our Bayer(etc) friends are going to say "see, obviously there was nothing wrong with neonicotinoids", and seriously, how could anybody argue? Consequently, we'll have a whole 'nuther mountain to climb whenever we as the bee industry make claims about any other substance; we'll lack credibility.
Challenging agrichem companies directly by pushing for regulation might not be the best or only way to go. Perhaps we should try to appeal more to farmers themselves, and get them to use less pesticide overall, no matter what precisely it is that they use. They recognize the value of bees and will be more receptive because they aren't on the defensive.
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Christopher Brodie
Richard Dawkins is the first holder of the newly endowed Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He is best known for his award-winning popular science books, beginning with the best-selling The Selfish Gene in 1976 and including The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) and Unweaving the Rainbow (1998). An outspoken atheist, Dawkins is also a frequent participant in public discussions of science and religion. His latest book, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, is a backward journey through four billion years of evolutionary history to the origin of life, drawing insights from the "tales" of 40 creatures met along the way.
Associate Editor Christopher Brodie spoke with Dawkins by telephone in December 2004.
I want to talk with you a bit about The Ancestor's Tale. What made you want to write a book that was more general than your other works, that encompassed ground that you've previously covered?
It doesn't really cover previous ground. I've never written about the actual detailed facts of evolutionary history before. My previous books have all been attempts to make evolution easier to understand, to make theory easier to understand. This is the first book that really lays out the detailed facts of evolutionary history.
In doing so, you took an unconventional approach, starting with humans and moving back in time to the origins of life. What were the challenges of that approach?
Well, it was a bit difficult, because history obviously does go forward, and the language of narrative tends to move forward. So there were slight problems there. I think it was worth it, because if you do your history forwards, it looks as though evolution is aimed at the endpoint. And if the endpoint happens to be humans, as it is likely to be—because we are human and we are most interested in humans—then it looks as though history were aimed at humans from the start, and that's positively wrong. The advantage of going backwards is that you always come to a climax at the origin of life, no matter where you start. So that was the rationale for doing it, but it did of course present some problems.
In the introduction, you explain the rationale for using Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as a model, and you describe aspects of The Ancestor's Tale that correspond to it. Literature uses many mythic themes and allegories. What should be the place of myth and religion in literature, and in the internal life of man, as opposed to science?
I occasionally use the imagery of religion because it's part of our culture and because you can't understand literature without it. It's something that's deeply built into everybody's consciousness in the English-speaking world, so to use religious imagery, whether it's from Chaucer or from the Bible, resonates with people. I'm not sure I understood your question.
Let me place it more in context. I'm calling you from North Carolina, which is located in the Bible Belt. I've taught biology at the high-school level, and some of my students and their parents struggled with the concept of evolution as being contrary to their stated religious beliefs. Your work champions evolution as a way of viewing life on Earth. And yet there's an internal life, a life of the mind, that makes sense with mythic themes and allegory. I wanted to hear you comment on how you see religion and myth.
Okay, well, the first thing, I suppose, is to say that respectable, educated theologians, from the pope and archbishop of Canterbury down, all support evolution. So any of your students who think there's a conflict between evolution and religion don't understand their religion and should go and learn it up.
Then you ask about the role of myth and allegory and other religious images in the life of the mind. Well, as I've said before, they do clearly play a role in the life of the mind. I think that when religions attempt to make statements about the nature of the world, as most of the major religions do, then they are almost invariably wrong. And when they don't, when they simply attempt to raise the spirits or provide uplift, then they don't conflict with science. But science itself can do that job very well on its own. For example, Einstein uses language which sounds religious; indeed, he even uses the word God. But it's very clear, if you read Einstein carefully, that Einstein did not believe in anything supernatural. Einstein derived uplift and inspiration from science, from the contemplation of the wonders of the universe, but he certainly had no supernatural belief, and indeed he was very scornful of supernatural religion. And that would be my position as well.
Are there differences in the way scientific communities in the United States versus Britain view evolution as a paradigm because of our struggle with being a Puritan-based, Puritan-founded country?
Well, I don't think there's any difference in the science of the countries. First, I want to hasten to say that American scientists are the finest in the world, without a doubt. If I talk to American scientists, it's no different from talking to British scientists. We share essentially identical worldviews. But it's very different if you talk to American laypeople and British laypeople. Only about 40 percent of the population of Britain, according to a recent survey, believe in a supernatural God, whereas about 95 percent of the American public do. So that's a huge difference. But there's no difference that I can detect in the scientists of the countries. In both cases, among scientists the number of people who believe in a supernatural being is low.
You include in the book several references to recent political events in the United States. Do you think that what you call "the tyranny of the discontinuous mind" is becoming more widespread?
Well, that needs explaining. The tyranny of the discontinuous mind is something which I devote "The Salamander's Tale" to expounding.
The world is largely full of continua, so if you talk about somebody as tall or short or clever or stupid, we deceive ourselves into thinking that there's a kind of discontinuity between those things, whereas actually there's a continuum. This shows itself in expressions like "20 percent of the population are below the poverty line," as though there was a line. It's much more truthful to actually say how rich or how poor people are, rather than count the number who lie below or above some sort of line. So that's what I mean by the tyranny of the discontinuous mind.
A strong word like tyranny is appropriate, because it leads to things like the absurd objections to stem-cell cloning, which result from people's worries about abortion, which results from their treating any human embryo, no matter how young, as fully human. Being possessed of a discontinuous mind, they are unable to see that a one-celled zygote or a four-celled embryo is not human in the same sense as an adult human, or a one-year-old child. It [the zygote or embryo] can't think, it can't feel pain, it can't feel fear, it can't love, it can't hate—all it has is a potential. And the discontinuous mind can't cope with that. What we should do is say that there's a continuum between the embryo and the adult, such that the embryo gradually becomes human in all those senses. So a one-year-old child is more human than an embryo but less human than an adult in all sorts of ways. A human embryo before it gets a nervous system is less human, paradoxically, than an adult chimpanzee in all sorts of important respects—in the sense of being able to feel fear or feel love or feel hate or feel pain. So we need to learn to banish the discontinuous mind and to think instead in terms of a continuum for whatever it is that we're interested in, whether it's the ability to suffer, the ability to love, the ability to fear—and the right to be treated with human rights or the rights that we ascribe to sentient beings. That's the message of the salamander's tale, which could be subtitled "The Tyranny of the Discontinuous Mind."
You mention in the book that you are appalled at the works of liberal thinkers from 100 years ago—I think this is part of "The Grasshopper's Tale." You are appalled at their comments on race, and you wonder what scholars 100 years from now might be appalled at. You speculate that it might be our treatment of other species. This made me wonder: Are you a vegetarian?
No, I'm not, and that's an interesting question. What I believe is that we should try to minimize suffering. And so I would have no objection to killing something to eat it, provided it doesn't suffer. So I'm much more worried about the suffering in slaughterhouses and in factory farms—the dread that might enter the mind of a cow or pig when it's being led to the slaughter. To the extent that slaughtering practices are humane, I see no objection to using animals for meat.
The objection to using humans for meat would be not just that they are human, but that they would feel fear, they would know what was coming to them, they would be in a position to suffer in a way that a pig or a cow, if it was well treated, would not. So my aim would always be to reduce suffering, not to take a kind of absolutist position that there is something special and unique about humans which entitles them to exploit and use other species of animal for any purpose.
This view seems to be a benefit of evolution research—that it suggests such a continuum of life.
Well, let me just expand on what you've just said. It is, of course, true that there is a continuum between us and every other species, and it's literally a gradual, seamless continuum, except, of course, that most of the intermediates are extinct. If they were not extinct, then we would immediately see the absurdity of the speciesist double standard, whereby we treat humans as special—even human embryos as special—as opposed to chimpanzees or gorillas. We would immediately see the absurdity of that because we would be linked to those species by an unbroken chain of intermediates with whom we could interbreed. So if you really understand the implications of evolution, it becomes extremely hard to uphold the speciesist morality and ethic that we more or less universally live by. The tyranny of the discontinuous mind really does pervade our ethics and our morals.
How should biologists in general and geneticists in particular be trained? Seeing things as part of a continuum rather than as discrete entities that are isolated from one another by species distinctions is not the way biology has traditionally been taught. The distinctions between species, which seem quite precise in their Latin names, are not precise at the molecular level. So, particularly when I share more in common with a chimp that has type A blood than with a human that has type B blood—at that locus—how does that change our perspective?
Well, that's rather a specialized point, that you're more closely related to a chimp with the same blood type with respect to that one gene. I describe it as a kind of democracy of genes, and with respect to the vote of the vast majority of genes, of course we are more closely related to each other than we are to chimpanzees. So I think you can think of this idea of a democracy, a majority vote of genes, where species that still survive are usually pretty distinct. Occasionally they're not, as in the case of the salamander's tale. But because the intermediates are all extinct, every human is far, far closer to every other human than any human is to any chimp. So that's reasonably straightforward.
It's only when you start hypothetically imagining that the intermediates have not all gone extinct that you get into problems of defining the difference. And in those species where they've only just recently diverged, and so there is still the possibility of interbreeding between them, they form a kind of continuum from one species to the other with intermediates that still survive.
In terms of humans as animals that are evolving in response to our environment, is our current engineered environment that we control selecting for specific phenotypes?
Well, that's a difficult question. In a sense it must be—there is bound to be nonrandom survival of genes going on. But nowadays our environment is changing so rapidly that you can't pin down the environment that is doing the selecting. Moreover, since it is so hard to die young nowadays—since it's so hard to fail to reproduce because you're dead—what that means is that the difference between those who do reproduce and those who don't is more usually a matter of choice: whether you choose to have children or not. And only if that has a genetic component do we have natural selection going on.
But until quite recently, it does look as though different human environments have selected for different genes. Things like skin color and body shape seem to be well associated with the environment where people have lived. The Inuit have a different body shape from the Dinka, for example, and the Pygmy of the equatorial African forest is different again. Lactose intolerance, which is the primitive human condition in adults, has gone in those peoples who have a pastoral history. And so most Europeans, for example, can drink milk as adults, but most Chinese can't. That reflects a difference of natural selective conditions among our ancestors.
Right. But in a sense, those ancestors who were acted upon had much less control over their environment than we do at this point, so do you think that with the level of control we can exert now, we're at a lull?
I think we are at a lull. Theoretically, of course, we could steer evolution in any direction we chose. Nobody's doing that, I'm glad to say, but it would be possible to take a decision to breed the human equivalent of Pekingeses or bulldogs, and it could easily be done. But it's not, and I hope it won't.
This book is notable because it's based on your professional work as a scientist but also adopts a literary structure. Every once in a while, one sees barriers being broken down between different corners of the campus—literature and genetics in this case, but physics and philosophy has been a popular coupling recently. Do you think this is a trend, and if so, is it a good one?
Yes, I think it's always good to at least reexamine traditional barriers on the campus and see if there are other ways in which we could partition our subject. One of my previous books, Unweaving the Rainbow, was an attempt to break down the barriers between science and, well, poetry, I suppose. And yes, I am all for that.
I'm not as familiar with the educational system in Britain, but here it seems that we get shunted off pretty quickly into our respective domains, and it's hard to struggle back to some common ground. Has that been your experience?
No. Well, it's even worse here—we're shunted off even earlier than you are. And in many ways I think that is unfortunate. In Britain you tend to have to make a choice between science and art subjects at the age of about 16, and once you've made that choice it's very difficult to get back to the other one.
You mention in the book that you did some traveling in California in the 1960s. And you also emphasize the gulf between a chemical trip and an intellectual pilgrimage. Do you think that chemical trips can influence intellectual pilgrimages?
Oddly enough, I never actually experienced any chemical trips when I was in California. I spent two years as an assistant professor at the University of California in Berkeley. And although no doubt there were many chemical experiments, chemical trips, going on around me, I never actually experienced one. So I can't speak from first hand. But I can positively say that none of my own scientific thoughts have been inspired directly by pharmaceutical agents.
You are widely regarded as the perhaps the world's best advocate for evolution. What are the rewards and drawbacks of occupying such a public space?
I don't think I want to go along with that characterization. I'd rather take on a more modest role than that. But I do think that it's important that people, that biologists generally, should take a bit of trouble about defending their subject against its enemies, who are, unfortunately, extremely powerful, because they're extremely well financed. If you look at the money that's available—tax-free—to organizations who make it their business to fight against science in the guise of fighting against evolution, then I think that biologists and scientists generally need to recognize that their subject is under threat, particularly in the United States. And we would be foolish if we didn't heed this threat and try to do something about it. So if you characterize me as playing some sort of leading role in this fight, I shouldn't be, because it should be a role that everybody in the field is playing their part in.
What is your next book going to be about?
I'm not sure yet. I'm still sort of recovering from the previous one. It might be some sort of F.A.Q.—frequently asked questions. In my role as professor of public understanding of science, I do get a lot of letters from people asking questions, and I try to answer them. I have thought for some time of putting them together in the form of a book of questions and answers—a sort of edited collection of questions and answers. But nothing definite is planned yet.
Would you have any words of advice for other scientists who are trying to write books for a general audience?
I think, let the science speak, because it's inherently fascinating. That's one piece of advice. The second, separate piece is try to put yourself—it's so obvious, I mean it doesn't need saying—in the position of the reader. Not just one reader, but, successively, lots of different readers. Imagine this was being read by Uncle Joe, imagine this was being read by your doctor, imagine this was being read by your lawyer, imagine this was being read by your old French teacher. So every time you read through your stuff, imagine it through the eyes of some particular individual, and it will have an automatic sort of Darwinian selection effect on your words, and you'll recognize—"Oh, he wouldn't have understood that, she wouldn't have got that point," and so you change it. And by the time a chapter has been through this succession of filters, it comes out clearer, because you've anticipated all the difficulties that people will have.
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The White-lipped Snake is quite common in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and occurs throughout the forested areas of southern Victoria, often in wetter habitats.
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Coventry, A. J. and Robertson, P. 1991. The Snakes of Victoria – A Guide to their Identification. Department of Conservation & Environment/Museum of Victoria.
Cogger, H. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Reed Books.
Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2003. Reptiles of Australia. Princeton University Press.
Hi Penny. As white-lipped snakes are famously small (many sites advertise their maximum length as 40 cms) you may have seen a different species, while walking. There are photographs of various Victorian snake species that you can consult at our bioinformatics website. Do you any of them look familiar?
Hi Rick, consider joining a Herpetologist Society, such as the Australian Herpetological Society. You can find contact details here: http://www.ahs.org.au/
Hi Laura, as it says in our infosheet above, the white-lipped snake is very common. It's not threatened in the wild.
Hi Jane, the Australian Venom Research Unit are the people to ask about the potency of venom. You can find contact details here.
Hi Andre, thanks for the question. We have chatted with the Herpetologist and she is not an expert on the venom of snakes, she has suggested that the Australian Venom Research Unit will be able to answer this question definitively, as they are the experts in this field.
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Does anybody know of a source for the small round metal vent grilles as used on some models of observation hives?
Brushy Mt. puts them on all of their observation hives. You could call them and ask if they would sell you some.
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Here's a thought.
Round vents (1-2" dia) are used in house siding. Just drill hole, push-in aluminum ("plug") vent, some have screen on back side, some dont. Look at Lowes/Home Depot w/ other vents (foundation, etc).
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Rockler Woodworking has something similar for venting entertainment centers. They have a website.
Brushy Mountain is currently out of them, but I can buy a box of 12 for about $1.00 each. They said the hive I saw that had these wasn't being adequately ventilated and the bees were hot. Lowe's has some 2" aluminum louvered vents, but they look really big for what I want. I think I'll just cut some holes with a Forstner bit, profile the edges with a router and use fiberglass screen wire stapled to the inside.
I'd use #8 or #7 hardware cloth on the inside instead. That way it takes the bees a lot longer to propolize it up.
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