On 19-Feb-09, at 4:40 PM, Trevor Weatherhead wrote:

> Brian wrote
>
>> The updated rule limits the application of insecticides labeled as  
>> dangerous to bees in areas near
>> registered apiaries around the active foraging hours of honeybees.  
>> The applications must occur
>> prior to 8:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m. These times are designed to  
>> prevent application directly to
>> foraging bees and also allows chemicals to settle and dry onto  
>> plant surfaces outside the primary
>> hours of active bee foraging.
>
> What happens to those bees working before 8am?  The rules look like  
> a step in the right direction but need some working on to make them  
> prcatical.
>
>

Hi Trevor Brian and all

And with daylight savings time my bees are foraging heavily up to 9PM  
in late June.  I am at 44 degrees north while Des Moines and Cedar  
Rapids are at 42 degrees north but still with sunlight well after 6PM.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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