Jim,
Thanks for posting this. I've been outspoken about Xerces and one of 
my current bee talks to non beekeepers is "how the environmentalists 
have hijacked the honeybee crisis." But I'm sensing some real 
pushback is forming.

A local pollinators group formed (and folded up shortly after) and a 
local beekeeper of some stature was involved and ranting about how 
all his problems are caused by Round-up.  I didn't stay to the end of 
the meeting and never returned.

The mentality of the "natives only" groups is worrisome. Every white 
(and black) resident of North American is similarly defined as "invasive."

At 12:00 AM 12/4/2014, you wrote:
>Date:    Wed, 3 Dec 2014 10:26:06 -0500
>From:    James Fischer <[log in to unmask]>
>
>  the Xerces Society, et al ... by busily defining honey bees as 
> "non-native", and "invasive"
>everywhere they could.
>
>When are we going to learn that these fund-raising machines are not our
>friends or allies, and love only money?

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