>
> >He and I both keep bees in the same general locale where pesticide use is
> practically nil. If my bees die, the last thing that I would suspect would
> be pesticides. Where would they get them?
>

Ditto where I keep bees.  And I've spoken with beekeepers from all over the
world who live in pesticide-free locales, who tell me the same thing--that
they experience exactly the same problems as beekeepers in ag areas.

At the two-day Bee Audacious conference in Marin County a while ago.
Invitees from all areas of beekeeping, agriculture, environment, etc were
invited to learn from each other in small, regularly-changing groups, and
to share ideas.

On the last day, at the formal wrap up when we all got together, and
facilitator Dr. Mark Winston asked for one-sentence take-home summaries of
what we'd learned, one of the first to voice an opinion said, "Ban all
pesticides."

Most of the rest of us looked at the speaker in disbelief.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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