*the forecast impact of thiamethoxam on honey bees is nuanced, being highly contingent on colonies’ capacity for producing workers;



I've never heard a weaker argument in favor of using a poison. What would happen to a freshly split colony, or a colony recently swarmed or superseded? What other combinations of stressors would make it vulnerable enough to collapse?

Tom Lewis, 

N. Calif.

 





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