Hello Peter,
I will contact you off list like we have done before. 

Looks like the pesticide treated seed issue is heading for the courts so I 
do not feel it wise to discuss in a public forum.

The CCD hard fact is until funding is passed the research for the most part 
is stalled and the samples sit in a freezer. CCD research is important to 
many commercial beekeepers for a very simple reason.

The CCD team lists four areas of possible cause of CCD. Number four being 
pesticide issues. We need research to narrow the field and eliminate from 
the list. As long as chemical companies can point to other things being the 
cause instead of their product ( like in France ) we have a problem. The 
research needed to fight in court pesticide treated seed  might take 
several years and serious funding which the current bills in congress could 
fund. 

CCD research (independent of chemical co. paid for research) could prove 
pesticide treated seed is not harmful to bees etc. which would make the CCD 
team elminate one of the four possible causes off the list.

To sum things up we need to narroa the list.

bob 

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