deknow wrote:
>>I think that something was garbled by the writer to give you
>the impression that "trapped pollen" was contaminated.
>
>this was not written information, it was part of a presentation.  i found
the claim so shocking, that i did raise my hand and clarify what the speaker
was saying.  

excerpt:

There's pesticides in the pollen. Pesticides in the wax.
Q: Maryann, that's trapped pollen?
No, in this case its just bee bread.

What we haven't seen, particularly in wax, is a correlation between sick
colonies and high levels of pesticide, particularly beekeeper used
pesticides. The highest level of fluvalinate was in a non-CCD hive (200 ppm.

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