On Wed, 30 May 2007 10:21:46 -0700, Paul Cherubini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Brian, is the assumption that pollinators are in serious
>or substantial decline due to industrialized farming
>practices real or imagined?


like what habitat and food sources would pollinators find in a sea of corn and soybean where the 
roadside ditches are sprayed with herbicide so the farmers can bale it?  hey its called a bee 
wasteland. 

National Academy of Sciences Report titled

Status of Pollinators in North America (2006)

http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309102898

please read this and tell me i'm blowing smoke...

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