Dee Lusby wrote:
>would that need further research to understand why and to what extent it
makes bees avoid the plants? 

Nowhere does the report say that bees are "avoiding" the fields. This is a
misunderstanding. Simply because there is a lack of bees in a particular
field does not therefore mean that the bees are "shunning" it. 

I think one would be hard pressed to show that bees "avoid" anything, except
fires or bad weather. They certainly do plenty of dumb thing things: like
fly into honey tanks and fresh snow. 

pb

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