hi randy,

since you are "in the room", i'd like to put a bug in your ear...an asian longhorn beetle to be exact.

do you know anything about this issue?

basically, the trees without active infestation will be treated with injected imidacloprid.  this is expected to happen for 3-5 years running in many of these trees.  many of the trees are maples.  there seems to be no data on what the levels of imidacloprid are to be expected in nectar, pollen, and/or resins with these yearly treatments.

it seems as if aphis is funding some work by a grad student of jeff pettis (fwiw, i was the one to approach aphis about funding such work).  ...more should be done.  more samples...more analysis...more hives.  i don't know what the thinking is at bayer on this stuff, but it would be great to have better funding for this work.

deknow

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