> I have been strongly suggesting to my contacts at EPA, as well as to
> beekeeping leadership, that we shift our focus with insecticide adverse
> effects away from honey bees (managed livestock) to "pollinators"
> in general.

In the absense of field evidence of significant harm?

How many previous case history examples can anyone cite where a
crop insecticide was discovered to be significantly harmful to pollinators in 
general (such as bumblebees, sweat bees, leaf cutter bees, squash bees) 
in real world field situations, but not to honeybees?  

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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