Re: New British Imid Study

>Read for yourself as the evidence against the neonicotinoids mounts.
>

Did read.  This was a review of literature--nothing new, no mounting
evidence.  No smoking gun.

Not to say that neonics can't harm bees--they are clearly toxic under
certain circumstances.  But they are rapidly degraded in a bee's body
(hours).  If they are indeed the cause of major bee losses, it should be
easy to demonstrate so in field or semi-field trials.  Such "real life"
trials consistently fail to do so.

Please note that the negative affects upon bees in many of the cited papers
are at extremely high dose levels.  There are also a very few studies that
found deleterious effects at low doses in lab tests, but again, most of us
are more interested in what actually happens in the field, rather than on
the lab bench.

Randy Oliver

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