On 27/04/2015 9:41 PM, Peter Loring Borst wrote: > Neonicotinoids are used in Australia, where honey bee losses have not occurred. One is tempted to say it is because of better beekeeping, but I wouldn't say that. Some bods have blamed it for various ills, particularly those who work canola, but in fact the reality is beekeepers here unless on pollination, do not spend much time on cropping land. Our build country here is some native heath and then followed by straight to honey on bushland or further build on some horticultural country. This has occasional pesticide problems as it has changed from dairying to mostly macadamia nut growing. Even so one would only tend to spend a maximum of six weeks on country that is likely to have insecticide applications. There have been some problems from spray drift from aerial cotton spraying, devastating to the individual, but not all that significant in the great scheme of things. Geoff Manning *********************************************** 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