> Bottom line here, if the stuff can accumulate in a ditch,
> all those "pollinator conservation agricultural set-asides" become
> taxpayer-funded pollinator poisoning stations.  Talk about unintended
> consequences!  

Hypothetical and imaginary consequences.

Any farm kid from the upper Midwest could take his/her camera phone into a 
farm road ditch and start shooting video of scores of bees, flies, wasps,
beetles and butterflies visiting the flowers in the ditch like this: (3 minute video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS7xnDRGYjk

And do it month after month during the growing season year after
year because there aren't any chronic toxicity problems from
ANY farm chemical applications be it neonic seed coatings or 
foliar / granular applications of insecticides and fungicides.

Likewise the kids could lay insect glue board insect traps like these
http://image.dhgate.com/albu_248278710_00-1.0x0/hot-selling-glue-boards-flies-pest-mosquitos.jpg
on the ground inside corn and soybean fields overnight to show there
are scores of ground dwelling insects that live inside the crop fields
grown from neonic coated seed.

Next, they could start digging into the field soil to show that lots of
earthworms live in the ground where the neonic coated corn and soybean
seeds have been planted for the past 8 consecutive years.

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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