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Randy said:
"You hit the nail on the head, Lewis! There are plenty of clear pesticide
kills, but also other kills unrelated to pesticides (I experienced one in
one of my yards this early summer)."
I concur. I've seen several bee kills that look like what we used to call
pesticide, but the chemical analyses don't show any smoking guns. I do
see heavy Nosema, virus, and often varroa associated with these piles of
dead bees. Of course, there are some cases that are still clearly pesticide.
There has also been a shift in reporting. When we had problems with
carbamates, OPs, chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, a PILE of dead bees was
called a kill.
Those piles of dead bees fortunately are fewer and farther between. But
now we've got some inspectors and some beekeepers calling a few scattered
bees in front of a hive a KILL. It appears that memory fades fast.
I don't mean to trivialize this issue - insecticides are designed to kill
insects, and misuse can lead to problems. But, what is being called a bee
kill these days often is not what used to be called a bee kill.
Jerry
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