> As we have seen so often in the past, the researchers poisoned > the bees in a lab instead of looking at the interaction of bees > and neonicotinoids in a real life field situation. > > As Julian Little, spokesman for Bayer Cropscience has stated > in the past: http://tinyurl.com/7n86thg "All studies looking at > the interaction of bees and pesticides must be done in a full > field situation" Paul left off the next paragraph from the above by Professor Goulson ( Professor of Biological Sciences Scotland and has worked on over fifty studies since 1993 which are listed at his website) head of the study: Goulson dismissed as "nonsense" Julian Little's suggestion that the doses given to the bees were higher than in reality. Both Bayer & Defra suggested other field studies had shown no harmful effects to bees. Goulson said:"if they have done these studies ,where are they?They are not in the public domain and therefore cannot be scrutinized. That raises the question of just how good are they". bob *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm