The take home message is that any toxin that has adverse effects on younger
bees will have more impact upon the colony than one that equally affects
older bees.  The point is that the sublethal effects that you are
justifiably concerned with will be strongly exhibited in the "r" of the
colony, and easily observed by tracking the rate of adult population growth
or decline.

This month in IL we have been having a discussion on Adult foragers
digesting pollen/ nectar.

Do we have any information in how much of a given pesticide is taken up by
foragers/ vs fed to the rest of the hive in general?    IE if a forager puts
contaminated nectar in its honey gut,  does the pesticide in question stay
in suspension or is it absorbed by the host???

Wondering out loud if this has to anything to do with how much actually gets
into the hive?

Charles

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