> > In reality the report Apenet says the contrary:
> > "Effects of coated maize seed on honey bees"
> > Report based on results obtained from the second year (2010) activity of
> > the APENET project. Please you must read better the study here
> >
> > http://www.reterurale.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/1289
> > http://www.reterurale.it/downloads/APENET_2010_Report_EN%206_11.pdf
>
> The second one is in English and  deals with the seeding process of coated
corn and dispersal of dust.

On the bottom of page 5 and top of page six, bee deaths reported due to nics
are all because of improper use. Not much at all about any problem in the
field, so tracks with what most have seen.

The paper then goes on to show what the best way is to reduce dust when
planting coated seed.

Then they conduct an experiment to have bees fly over corn planters and see
if the dust does them in. It does when the bees come in contact with the
dust.

So what I take from this is do not have bees near corn fields when planting
treated corn and do not set up you apiary to insure they fly directly over
the planter during planting. Sort of like do not have bees near fields when
pesticides will be used. In both cases contact is necessary.

If the bees do not fly over the field, then you have to make sure they are
downwind of the planter, otherwise they will be just fine.Nothing about what
happens after the seed is in the ground and dust has settled, but then that
study would mirror what they found way back in the beginning of the study,
which is nothing.

If I misread the study, happy to be corrected, but to base the banning of an
insecticide on this study is a reach.

Peter 1 opposition 0.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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