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But be assured that his one will get traction while the honeybee study will not. It is the impala- nice metaphor BTW.
The nice thing about the honeybee study was there were a variety of locations and tests of pollen for all pesticides. That, to me, is key as the neonics are only one class of pesticides that the bees encounter.
Again, I am leaning toward BBs having more problems than honeybees in the field, but so far there is nothing definitive.
Bill Have you read "bumble bee economics" ? it’s a real good read actually. One of the takeaways from that was the number of bumbles is a highly variably issue. While honeybees being managed are fairly stable. In a bad year we feed our honeybees. In a bad weather year bumble reproduction is suppressed. Much like some years we get swarms like crazy, other years hardly any.
That makes any/all solitary bees hard to use as the monitor. Simple weather variations have more impact than most of us can imagine, nor de we have a good way to evaluate it.
Charles
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