Xerces: As part of the effort to educate law-makers and regulators at the EPA about the severe impacts of these chemicals

I think they confuse propaganda with education. For example, when I wrote to them directly about the fact that certain lindens are toxic to bumblebees, they dismissed that information as not relevant. Here they had a great publicity opportunity to blast about their cause, and they weren't about to pass it up. 

As I have said before, this issue is making strange bedfellows. Many of the so-called conservationist are actually surreptitiously trying to do away with non-native species as well. There is a movement in California to eradicate the evil eucalyptus, for example. Honey bees also do not fit in with their "pollinator conservation" schemes, at least not in the USA. Except when standing along side beekeepers makes them look sympathetic.

Pete

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