--- On Fri, 12/24/10, Paul Cherubini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:  "Bottom line is I am wondering just how bees in the corn belt could be significantly exposed to clothiandin contaminated corn pollen on a landscape scale and over a multi-week period?  

If corn was all planted on the same day the the narrow range of pollen production might be seen.  However, corn can be planted over a range of a few days to a few weeks, depending on weather, planting machine availability, the whimsies of the farmer, etc.   In the range of an apiary, surrounded not by big ag but by smaller farm operations, corn can and is planted over a rather extended time period.  Thus bees might have access to corn pollen for three to five or more weeks instead of just a seven to ten day period.

Mike in LA
Formerly lived on a corn producing farm (small)


      

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