> Were
> any of the posts on insectide kills on the bee-l having to do with corn
> Bill? I don't remember any.
>
The problem with the archives is they do not go back to when Pencap M was a
major topic. Here is a post from an agriculture website in 1997:
Pencap-M is micro-encapsilated methylparathion as I recall. Until
> Connecticut's regulation was modified to stop the use of this
> material on tasseling corn we were loosing many colonies to
> methylparathion poisoning every year in CT.
>
So, yes, there were many during the Pencap M period. I was around then. It
was a major killer of bees from corn pollen.
It also killed on other crops because it was encapsulated and resembled
pollen.
I went back in the archives to the earliest posts on pesticides and got
what I posted from only one page and that was easy plus I only looked at a
relative few.
I got a post on another site about Dan Rather reporting on bees and one of
the posters was from the UK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ5riRX1_3w
Quoting the post-
Honeybee SuppliesUK 6 hours ago
>
In the UK we are seeing larger colony losses over the winter. Beekeepers
interviewed on TV blame pesticides? No evidence! We have not had adult bee
losses from crop treatments for many years. The only losses are chemicals
applied incorrectly by DIY gardeners. Insect Habitats are declining due to
bad farm practices and birds are vanishing as their insect/seed food
reserves disappear. Varroa, dysentry (nosema) and starvation are evidently
visible signs in nearly all UK bee losses. Bad Management!
Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine
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