>
>
> I've been trying to find supportive papers for this implication.  Do you
> happen to know of any studies that confirmed this?
>

Way back in April 2013 I posted:

IPM article- http://www.birc.org/SeptOct2008.pdf



> Also in the IPM article is the answer to the question that has come up
> fairly often here on the BeeL-"After Imid was banned in France, what
> happened?"



>   Pressure from the French bee-keeping industry led to a ban on the use of
>> > imidacloprid on sunflowers and corn, but honey bees continued to die.
>> Finally, in 2004 France also banned the pesticide Regent®, which has the
>> active ingredient fipronil. According to Schacker (2008), the bees started
>> to recover in 2005 and even larger numbers were seen in 2006
>>
>
Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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