>
> >Although the study has touched on my concerns quite a bit of research is
> still needed.


At the AHPA conference today, Bayer and EPA representatives reported.
The issue of contaminated dust from pneumatic planters was downplayed.  I
brought it up during questioning, and found that they are not receiving
incident reports about it in the U.S., which surprised me.  I asked to whom
reports by beekeepers experiencing seed dust problems such as in the paper
cited should be made.

Beekeepers experiencing bee kills due to planting dust should call Tom
Steeger at EPA directly, and Dick Rogers at Bayer directly.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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