> As per the neonics, I haven't had time to thoroughly look at the results, 
> but I did look at Imidacloprid.  The imidacloprid results show that  only 
> 1% of the wax samples, 2.9% of the pollen samples, and 0% or none of  the 
> bees had detectable levels.  That makes it hard to argue that this 
> chemical constitutes a major problem to bees in the U.S.

Can we assume that the tests included a check for metabolites?

For that matter, what do we know about the breakdown products of these 
products? 

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