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Trevor Weatherhead <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:40:38 +1000
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Brian wrote

> The updated rule limits the application of insecticides labeled as 
> dangerous to bees in areas near
> registered apiaries around the active foraging hours of honeybees. The 
> applications must occur
> prior to 8:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m. These times are designed to prevent 
> application directly to
> foraging bees and also allows chemicals to settle and dry onto plant 
> surfaces outside the primary
> hours of active bee foraging.

What happens to those bees working before 8am?  The rules look like a step 
in the right direction but need some working on to make them prcatical.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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