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Sun, 7 Apr 2013 22:41:58 +0100
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Re: Regent
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> Pressure from the French bee-keeping industry led to a ban on the use of
> imidacloprid on sunflowers and corn, but honey bees continued to die.

Half-life?  Still in the soil and taken up by crops planted the following
year(s)?

How long would a ban have to be before we know the real answers?

Best wishes

Peter
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