SHIM: A chat with Dr. Hachiro Shimanuki, USDA HOney Bee Research Leader, retired

摘要

Recently I had a chance to sit and chat with Dr. Hachiro Shiminuki, who retired in 2000 from the position of Research Leader, USDA Beltsville, Maryland Honey Bee Research Lab, and now the Chief Editor of the 41st Edition of the ABC & XYZ of Bee Culture, published by the Root Company earlier this year. The occasion was his coming to Medina to autograph copies of ABC. We talked about many topics as we unwrapped books, and put them back in boxes when done, and what follows is, in no particular order, areport on some of that conversation. Dr. Shiminuki, or Shim as he has always been called, now has a somewhat different perspective on the honey bee industry, and, after seven years of not being in charge but being somewhat close to the action, his comments and thoughts are revealing.