At 11:48 AM 4/5/00 -0500, you wrote: Layne is not the only one to make that connection. A few years ago, one of my graduate students was study raptors on the Hanford reservation and I was also coordinating a project that looked at the potential for conflicts between birds and wind turbines. In a meeting with our Natural Resources groups, who knew of my involvement with birds, it came to light that my personal research area was bees. Which resulted in someone asking if that meant I spent all day thinking about the "birds and the bees" Sorry Layne, you started this. >Jerry Bromenshenk wrote of EPA pesticide testing regulations and how they have >a tendency to test chemicals mainly on birds. > >Since no one has given him the obvious response begged by his post, I just had >to reply: > >EPA should not be testing only on birds, but should be testing on >"the birds AND the bees." It appears that no one told the EPA about the birds >and the bees. Anyone with a lick of sense knows that the very survival of the >human race is dependent upon knowing about the birds AND the bees. That should >be obvious to anyone, including people who work for the EPA, but I guess maybe >not. Sorry...I just couldn't help myself. > >Layne Westover >College Station, Texas > > Jerry J. Bromenshenk, Ph.D. Director, DOE/EPSCoR & Montana Organization for Research in Energy The University of Montana-Missoula Missoula, MT 59812-1002 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: 406-243-5648 Fax: 406-243-4184 http://www.umt.edu/biology/more http://www.umt.edu/biology/bees