Randy already noted the lack of actual impact in the field and another posted noted that canola is a treated crop. Medhat can answer this best, but his data with colonies all around those fields show that if nosema and Varroa are kept in check (which is what a good beekeeper should be trying to accomplish) then you are back to normal losses. So we have a fairly large test going on right now and the results do not match the concern of those trying to link ppt with mass bee die-offs. If the link was there then they do not match actual field conditions. Again, there is a large gap between what is shown in a lab and what eventually is found in the field. You can kill just about any virus and pathogen in a petri dish. Plus, as Jerry noted, the lab experiment can be the problem. Chris Reeve wrote this on the internet's most viewed weather blog - Watts up with that? > And this gets to the very problem which you guys are facing: How can we > force people like particle physicists, quantum physicists, cosmologists and > climate scientists to listen to the objections and research of outsiders? > Currently, there exists no check-and-balances to the current top-down > approach. Our scientific institutions have become authoritarian. The > research exists to protect the ideology, instead of serving mankind. We’ve > made a real good mess of things! > > But these are no accidents. These are all natural ramifications of what it > means to be human. This is just human psychology. Left unrestrained by > philosophy of science, science starts to take on the imprint of our personal > preferences and prejudices — and our scientists come to imagine that their > purpose is to prove that which they were taught in college. > It is an admonition to all scientists. Bill Truesdell Bath, Maine *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm