> Then Greg Hunt at Purdue had a bee kill at corn planting,
> and Greg also just
> happened to be well-equipped to collect samples and data
> from a bee kill.

As Greg Hunt told the Missouri State Beekeepers last year, he placed his study’s four hives “right at the edge” of a cornfield before planting. The observed clouds of planter exhaust resulted in several hundred dead bees out front of the hives. But it rained the following day and the hives appeared to recover.

Not to minimize the planter dust issue, just to suggest that there are a lot of variables involved.

Eugene Makovec
Missouri USA

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