MN paid compensation to 2 beekeepers for pesticide kills caused by
clothianidin as a seed coating on corn.
This was the typical "spring planting" seed-drill dust scenario documented
by Greg Hunt of Perdue years ago.

http://www.startribune.com/in-win-for-beekeepers-state-links-insecticide-to-
damaged-hives/372728941/
http://tinyurl.com/zpomcmz

But one learns from a 2015 radio piece (link below) that Pam Arnold and
Kristy Allen have 5 hives each, and they keep them on properties directly
adjacent to corn fields.  (How Ms. Arnold's "Salt-n-Pepper Farm, LLC" can be
considered "organic" if it is also downwind from a farm where clothianidin
dust blows, and why Ms. Allen's "The Beez Kneez LLC" does not move its hives
to more productive areas than those adjacent to corn fields is a question
that arises in the mind of the astute reader, but is not answered, as
journalists when writing about agriculture, so often miss the forest for the
peas.

http://www.prx.org/pieces/165510-tracking-down-a-chemical-killer
http://tinyurl.com/hfvrv3h

How two beekeepers with a mere 5 hives each became "the test-case
plaintiffs" here is not explained, as this sort of "victory" opens the door
to a wide range of criticisms that would not arise if the plaintiff were a
commercial beekeeper, or at least one with more than a handful of hives.

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