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Subject:	Re: What is the value of bees? Pesticide Bans
From:	Peter Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:08:04 +0100
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>If you ban neonics, what is going to take the place of that pesticide?
>Farmers are NOT going to let the insects have their way with their farm
>products. They are going to use something to control the insects. Ban
>neonics and you might be jumping out of the frying pan right into the fire.
>Nobody that I've noticed has addressed what will be used to replace neonics
>if neonics are banned.

We had no problems with the pesticides in use before neonicotinoids - well,
not since the 1980s.

More than happy to go back.

Best wishes

Peter
52.144442, -1.503509

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