> * Legislators, regulators, and municipal leaders across the country should
> consider banning the use of neonicotinoid insecticides for cosmetic
> purposes on ornamental and landscape plants (as the ban now in force in
> Ontario, Canada).
>

Happy to be corrected but I recall the ban in Ontario was all pesticides
used for "cosmetic" reasons, not just the neonics. True but not quite
accurate statement. Makes it seem the neonics were singled out. The ban was
universal.

Just googled it and I was correct. It was nearly universal except (I love
the government) for golf courses, IPM and "milder" pesticides. They did
tests and got reduced ground water contamination except for roundup, and
they decided not to test near golf courses and sewage treatment plants,
which would have loused up the good results.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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