Bob Harrison wrote:

> I was informed today ( by phone) that a die off is 
> happening in Italy in an area of tasseling corn. 
> Systemic pesticides suspected...

In the USA, Iowa is in the heart of the corn belt and
according to Iowa State University,
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/CropNews/2008/0703Robertson.htm
this year the corn was expected to be tasseling by mid-July.
A reasonable extrapolation is that at least half the
nation's 87,300,000 acres of corn
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2008/06_30_2008.asp
this year has been tasseling sometime within the
past 4 weeks. Has anyone heard of any very recent die offs
near tasseling corn?

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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