Thanks for joining in Paul!

>As you can see, even though moderate to high amounts
> of corn are grown in Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota
> and Wisconsin the total colony losses were relatively low
> to moderate.
>

True, but if you look at Fig. 1 instead, of average losses, the evidence is
more damning.

As several have posted, there is no reason to expect bees to do well on
acreage of corn devoid of other sources of bee nutrition, not to mention
any pesticide exposure.


-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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