andrea young wrote:

> Even if this [atrazine  herbicide] does not directly link to CCD,
> perhaps those of us in the beekeeping community should be
> asking the question of how it might be affecting our stock going forward.

Andrea, to my knowlede, CCD is not more prevalent in the corn and
soybean belt of the upper midwest where both atrazine and the
neonicotinoid insecticides are widely used.

Atrazine was especially widely used in the 1980's and 1990's,
long before CCD:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AtrazineUSAMap.png

Syngenta, the maker of atrazine, questions the credibility of several
university studies which suggest atrazine causes developmental
problems for amphibians:

http://www.atrazine.com/Amphibians/atrazine_amphibians.aspx
http://www.atrazine.com/Amphibians/atrazine_amphibians_research.aspx

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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