So that's some nice math.  I found you can kill a bee in only 5ml of deadly
salt water that can kill on contact (horribly death by suffication no less,
talk about putting salt on a wound).  The world's oceans contain
1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers of this toxin.  That is 1.386 x 10^27 ml,
which is enough to create 2.772 x10^26 lethal doses.  At 50,000 bees per
hive that's enough to kill 5.544x10^21 hives.  Even if only 0.000000001%
(that's 1 billionth of one percent) of that is used to kill bees thats
still enough to kill 5.544x10^10 hives.  That's still over 50billion hives,
which should put the honeybee extinct in short order.

I think it's more appropriate to work with doses actually experiences in
the field.  These sorts of calculations really don't do a whole lot other
than get people up in arms or try to marginalize something deadly
(depending on whether your emphasizing how little is applied orhow many
bees it can kill).  If your calculations were anywhere near the truth the
Midwest would be completely devoid of bees, but then again if 1 soda can
was so insignificant they wouldn't be effective treatments either.  Yes we
should look at all pesticides and evaluate them closely, but let's work
with actual doses and relavant amounts of exposure, rather than focusing on
how much is applied.

Jeremy
West Michigan

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