Richard how do you know that our bees are not becoming resistant to neonics? Some of us have bees in a sea of neonic crops and have no problem keeping healthy bees if we control the mites. I know of a queen producer that has amazingly fine bees, but there is little influence from agriculture around the production area. I wish I had the money to do a trial with the queens vs queens produced in the typical northern Cal. agriculture zone or my own queens. I think the development of at least tolerance is the reason locally produced bees fair better than bees brought in from other areas. 


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