Bonjour,
Regarding the mail posted by François Servel and Imidacloprid which
touched upon the dreadful problems that French and other beekeepers are
having still to suffer. Please refer to the items posted previously
-Sunflowers and Gaucho in the archives. It details the losses which are
still continuing- spring and summer!
The product has now been banned in several countries( provisionally in
France)- but appears to still be causing problems due to reported
persistence in soils, with carry over into other crops such as
sunflower- even though the seed has not been treated.
It is a complicated story, not yet concluded.
Peter