A method is proposed for testing the side‐effects of plant protection products on honeybee brood, particularly aimed at products with insect growth‐regulating properties. It is intended to complement the EPPO guideline on test methods for evaluating the side‐effects of plant protection products on honeybees and to be used in the framework of the EPPO/CoE decision‐making scheme on environmental risk assessment.

In-depth interviews with Afghan refugees living in The Netherlands about their experience of healthcare, have led to a series of narratives. This article focuses on the relationship between the refugee-patients and their general practitioners (GPs) from the participants' point of view. It was possible to distinguish four different types of narrative, by analysing the individual interviews into critical episodes. Building trust was identified as the crucial issue. A number of possible explanations are given for the differences found. Links are made to participant expectations in respect of health and healthcare and to their personal and social resources. The GP has a key role in the Dutch healthcare system, but is a novel phenomenon for refugees arriving from Afghanistan. The development of a relationship of trust is sometimes compromised by negative personal experience and also by stories relating such experiences circulating in the Afghan community.The elements that constituted positive and negative episodes and led to the development or undermining of trust were identified in the narratives. Negative experience tended to be interpreted as a sign of prejudice on the part of the healthcare professional. The findings of this study are discussed in the wider context of research into patient priorities in general practice.

SUMMARYNewly capped worker brood cells were numbered on a sheet of transparent plastic, temporarily attached to the top bar using two thumbtacks. Into each cell an adult female Varroa mite was introduced. After ten days the cells were opened and the contents studied. Those females still present and alive were introduced into newly capped brood cells an so on.

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