http://tinyurl.com/7vmslmj http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/24/bees-pesticides http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120524092926.htm As we have seen so often in the past, the researchers poisoned the bees in a lab instead of looking at the interaction of bees and neonicotinoids in a real life field situation. As Julian Little, spokesman for Bayer Cropscience has stated in the past: http://tinyurl.com/7n86thg "All studies looking at the interaction of bees and pesticides must be done in a full field situation" The UC San Diego news story http://tinyurl.com/7vmslmj also misleads the public via stating: "Since 2006, beekeepers in North America and Europe have lost about one-third of their managed bee colonies each year due to "colony collapse disorder." Paul Cherubini El Dorado, Calif. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm