Point 2:

"If the "cumulative effect" hypothesis is true, then bees consuming neonic-tainted food for their entire lives should simply not survive for long, or exhibit clear adverse effects."

But if there is some ongoing metabolic breakdown, as there must be since we know that some of the metabolites do escape the synapse, and you yourself point the decay rate out there in Suchail's paper.... then the effect remains sublethal and they just die sooner, not quicker....meaning their lives are shortened but not in the measured amount of time.

Christina


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