Stan writes:
>I would like to point out that Christian Maus is an employee of Bayer crop science. 

Well, what about Helen Thompson? Got anything on her? She and James Cresswell write in a recent (21 September 2012) edition of "Science" that

> No published field experiment has yet had sufficient statistical power to detect effects on colonies of the magnitude observed on individual bees in the laboratory. 

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