On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:42 PM, randy oliver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
> http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/Bees&Pesticides_SOS_FINAL_May2012.pdf
>
>
> I love the expertise exhibited in these reports!  Look at the pretty photo
> of the bees on the comb of the cover page.  The authors apparently didn't
> recognize that one bee has a serious case of Deformed Wing Virus!
>

After all the criticism that has been leveled at other reports and news
articles (much of it valid), here we get a study full of interesting, to me
anyway, information and nicely formatted where you click on many of the
papers cited and the free ones come right up and out of all that
information you choose to comment on the fact that a bee in the picture has
DWV????  So what?  They talk about DWV in the paper.  They also talk about
beekeeper applied miticides extensively.   I am disappointed Randy.

Of interest:  they talk about virtually all the corn in the US being
neonicotinoid treated (except organic).  That I am almost sure is incorrect
(and more worthy of comment).  But in a previous discussion we had posting
which I think originated from a Bayer response to the neonicotinoids in
corn syrup paper that said that only a small portion of the corn crop was
treated.  I am a bit skeptical of this too.  I wonder if someone from the
midwest would phone a seed company and ask them how much of the corn seed
they sell is treated.  Or maybe our intrepid internet sleuths could post an
authoritative figure and source.

Stan

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