> All the talk about canola only slightly interests most U.S. beekeepers

The reason Canola studies should interest you is that bees are getting a lot of nectar and pollen over the summer and showing no ill effects. This was shown in a five year study where bees on canola were compared to not. Bees collect some corn but do not make a steady diet of it. I have posted up the wazoo and people still say it hasn't been looked at. 

> I think its reasonable to say that bees do poorly on canola but seem to recover after removed from *Canola.*

I seem to recall beekeepers saying they make a large honey crop on Canola. But as to doing poorly later, isn't that the chief claim of the anti-neonic crowd? That the bees seem OK but begin to fail later, due to long range sub-lethal effects of imidacloprid on the brood rearing? Obviously, a five year study would detect such a long range effect and none was seen.

PLB

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