Bob Harrison wrote:

> My concern as far as the bees goes is with planting neonic treated corn
> seeds year after year in the same field and the level of the neonics in the
> plants because of planting year after year.

Bob, you havn't cited any statistics that show a majority
of midwestern farmers are planting corn on corn instead
of rotating. 

Also havn't cited any data that shows the half life of
any corn seed neonic is more than 6 months in typical
midwestern soils.

When I asked the question "is anyone aware of a
YouTube video that shows honeybees gather nectar/pollen
from corn" the only one anyone could come up with
was from a garden of sweet corn near the east coast
(99% of midwestern corn is field corn, not sweet corn).

One must also consider any given field of corn sheds 
pollen for only 7-10 days out of the whole growing season.

Finally one must consider only tiny amounts of
neonic are applied per acre in the case of corn.

Thus all this evidence, taken together, suggests extremely
limited potential for bees to be exposed to more
than trace quantities of neonics in the corn belt states.

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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