>
> Why would such a powerful insecticide not kill a honey bee or a
> butterfly?
What part of the plant is the insect eating? When time was the 
insecticide applied? Same questions apply to all pesticides. Sevin is a 
terrible pesticide for bees, but I have used it many times in the past 
for cucumber beetles by applying it in early spring as a wettable powder 
on the first leaves. So the bees are fine.
>
> Imidacloprid was registered on the basis of the Bayer research *you 
> posted* which
> has largely been proven inaccurate now by the CCD team 
How has the CCD team proved the data inaccurate? Love to hear from them.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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