I noticed a bee article can now be found on Bayer's home page: http://www.bayer.com/ Clicking on the article takes you to this page: http://tinyurl.com/bnfuxck about a comprehensive action plan Bayer and Syngenta have proposed to help unlock the European Union stalemate on bee health. One of the listed proposals is: "1. Significantly scale up the creation of pollen rich, flowering field margins across the EU, to provide essential habitat and nutrition for bees." Does anyone think a project like this of significantly increasing available forage along field margins is logistically feasible (on a landscape scale) on American farmlands like those in the Corn Belt of the Midwest or in California's agricultural valleys? Or is this idea unrealistic because tens of thousands of farmers would likely demand financial compensation from the government for creating/maintaining flower strips for pollinators and because not many farmers would have the time and interest interest in such an endeavor that might only provide marginal landscape scale overall improvements in bee health? Paul Cherubini El Dorado, Calif. *********************************************** 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