> Once all Neonics have been banned throughout Europe for at least 2 years
> it will be possible to reach a conclusion. It will of course be necessary
> for the French to set up some credible way of collecting statistics. At the
> moment the system is laughable.
>

So there are no statistics? Could your own beekeeping federation undertake
to have something like

http://beeinformed.org/

where beekeepers and inspectors cooperate to get information about winter
survival?

One beekeeper's or even 20 reports are anecdotal, but 2,000 becomes a
statistic which most rational people will listen to. Or are there
statistics and they are disagreed with? If so, why are they not credible?

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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