The Univ. of Florida grad student didn't conduct a neonicotinoid effects study under actual field exposure conditions, therefore the results are not relevant to what happens in the real world. In the real world we have situations like Kansas, a state with huge acreages of commercial (presumably neonicotinoid treated) sunflowers with pollinators galore on those sunflowers: http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/sunc.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/sunb.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/suna.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/sund.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/sune.jpg And yet CCD is absent in Kansas: http://www.nebraska.tv/Global/story.asp?S=9181168&nav=menu605_2 "Kansas State University entomologist James Nechols said Kansas is among the states unaffected by the phenomenon, known as Colony Collapse Disorder. " Paul Cherubini El Dorado, Calif. **************************************************** * General Information About BEE-L is available at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/default.htm * ****************************************************
