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In article <39E6DC33.F2E9F4E9@clark.net>,
Tiny Human Ferret  <klaatu@clark.net> wrote:
>
>This is a reasonable question. I have to point out that since it appears to
>be 100 percent fatal to the North American Crow, someone might have data on
>crow populations and/or rapid declines or die-offs of uncertain origin. It
>might well have been around for a while, and have simply had an uncommonly
>potent strain circulating in NYC last year. Most people are relatively
>unaffected.

Yes. Or, nobody has noticed the Crow population until just recently. Those 'lil
viruses can change quite suddenly.

>Oh, so how are the bees?

Good. Thank goodness they aren't more closely related to Dipterans like
the little _Culex spp. Then maybe we'd lose pollinating nectar collectors
in the name of Public Health.

Insects don't mess around. Trying to eradicated them completely from the
habitat has never worked well. Knee-jerk spraying usually ends up doing
nothing for Public Health.

Adam 
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Adam Finkelstein
adamf@radix.net
http://www.ibiblio.org/bees/adamf