I've never heard anything about corn.  Ohio is filled with corn and  
we grow hundreds of acres of it ourselves.  Never sprayed a pesticide  
once on it.  THis is my first year keeping bees but everything I have  
heard is that Ohio's bees are simply exploding.  Not that that is  
proof, just an observation.  I'd be interested in hearing more about  
corn vs bees.

Cheers!

  Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1848

(513) 967-1106
http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com
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On Jul 12, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Brian Fredericksen wrote:
> We keep hearing the same nonsense about corn. Around here bees  
> rarely visit corn as we have an
> abundance of flowering plants when the corn is tasseling. If the  
> corn coated seeds was such a
> bogey man - where are the dead or missing bees in the corn belt  
> (MN, IA,NE,IL,IN,MO)? If anything
> the Corn Belt had very few reports of CCD.

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