Bob sorry for your loss.

Looking the case case from Europe, why wait for USDA. 

You most likely know what was used for corn seeds in that case, so the analyze 
is not that expensive when you don?t have to guess what chemical you are 
looking for.  If needed money can be raised by beekeepers. Anyone know how much 
such lab analyze cost in theUSA?

Get  someone that can be trusted from outside bee circles, like local cop, 
take samples of dead bees, fresh pollen, etc. and have the ?outside trusted 
person? to send them for a lab.

In the cases like this in Europe the amounts of active incredients are easily 
seen in quantaties the are known to be harmful for bees. Like the case in 
Germany few years back.

USDA can come later and take their own samples if they show op. If they never 
come it should be much more powerful to report for them what happened + the lab 
results

Ari Seppälä
Finland

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