> The bottom line is, despite the results of lab tests, does a pesticide 
> actually cause measurable harm to a colony in actual field conditions?

Doesn't that take us right back to the beginning of the whole debate?

Beekeepers' subjective and objective field observations, hunches, 
experiences and comparisons vs. various published and unpublished studies of 
various qualities, depths and independence. 

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