"Beekeepers in Florida reported huge problems with bees in orange groves and
tell me the illegal use of temik is responsible. They say growers are able
to buy temik for other label uses but are using on citrus.
solution:
ban temik in the U.S. like in the U.K."

Bob, you must be mistaken about temik,it's labeled and legal. Here is a typical spray program, that is in this months(july 2008) Citrus Industry magizine, citrusindustry.net. 
This is put out in florida, I'm sure the Cali folks have a different program.
 As you can see it's a pretty nice mix of some pretty poisons for beekeepers to be around.This program is because of Psyllids, which spread Greening disease,which kills the trees ,I won't go into the disease,which can be googled easily.

   Month
dec,jan             Fenpropathrim(danitol)
jan,feb             Aldicarb (temik)
april               Carbaryl(sevin)
may,june           *Abamectin(agrimek,abacus) IMIDACLOPRID
july                Dimethoate
aug,sept            oil/Carbaryl(sevin)
sept, oct          * envido/IMIDACLOPRID


I forget the pounds per acre of temik, but if you google it you can find the label, of which it says it will not harm bees ,not the I believe it, but here in Florida citrus has more pull than Us bees so they can do things that we (beekeepers) would be fined for ,such as spray against label laws.
Go figure.
             

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