http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-01-06/apnewsbreak-epa-says -pesticide-harms-bees-in-some-cases At the ABF conference this week Rick from the EPA announced that they have out a new risk assessment on one of the 4 classes of neonics. The other 3 are due out in the next year or so. Read for yourself please, keep in mind also that this risk assessment in on the EPA website open for comments ( I don't have the link) Bottom line its shows that in most cases this one is pretty low risk except for oranges and cotton. Looks to me like it's a darn good step. Of course many on both sides are still unhappy. We asked for action and we got some, Kudos to the EPA. Charles *********************************************** 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