from 

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/bees/colony-collapse-disorder-
55112202

" Certainly the most common foe honey bees have are the agricultural chemicals they encounter on a 
daily basis. This past season too many beekeepers witnessed the differences between colonies that 
visited treated crops, especially corn seed-treated with the new neonicitinoid chemicals that protect 
the plant for the entire growing season ... and colonies that stayed “out in the woods” as they say, 
far from the farmer’s killing fields.

Colonies exposed to these treated plants are, for many right now, experiencing a whole list of 
problems including and the prospect of successfully overwintering these colonies seems unlikely." 


Jerry do you or does anyone have any data to support this claim that corn seed treatments are 
causing big problems?   Living in the midst of a sea of corn in MN I know of no one including myself 
that falls into this category.  I have heard this claim many times and passed it off as just that a claim. 
Is this for real?  

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