> One of the biggest concerns for beekeepers is the Bayer
> Advanced Fruit, citrus, nut and vegetable control sold in
> most stores which sell pesticides.
> Wal-mart, K mart,Lowe's etc. The label says one treatment 
> lasts a year. Hmmm.

What justifies the concern? Those stores carry only a small 
inventory of neonics labelled for use on fruit & nut trees and 
ornamentals (most are in grannular form) like this: http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/9504/hdepot.jpg

And there are only a few of those stores per roughly 10-20 square miles
(6400 - 12,800 acres) of suburbia.

So it should be fairly obvious those stores do not enough inventory of neonics to treat even 1/10th of 1% of the flowering plants that exist in the gardens and yards of 10-20 square miles worth of suburbia. Therefore 
home garden neonics could not conceivably have a significant adverse landscape scale impact on the pollinators of suburbia.

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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