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From: "Peter L Borst" <[log in to unmask]>

>>Reese Halter, author of The Incomparable Honeybee and the Economics of 
>>Pollination said in an interview on CBC Radio's The Current that 
>>agricultural herbicides and pesticides have emerged as the likely and 
>>prime culprit for the disorder.

These would appear to adversely effect the bees' neurological systems, 
inducing the onset of Parkinson's Disease. This in turn causes the bees to 
become disoriented in the course of pollination, and they then lose their 
way and die without returning to their hives.

In fact, the cure is simple: dramatic curtailment of herbicide and pesticide 
use in modern agriculture, .....<<


This makes no sense whatever. Herbicides ARE pesticides!  It makes about as 
much sense as saying "Baptists and Christians" or "Presbyterians and 
Christians;" in other words, a mixing of a group and its members.

When ever you see "herbicides and pesticides," used in this manner of mixed 
grouping, it's time to check the work a little more closely, as it's a clue 
the author doesn't know what he's talking about.

And then, doesn't he mean "affect?"

Dave Green 

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