On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:11 AM, James Fischer > > Wind-blown pollen tends to be much smaller than 200 microns, they are 20 to > 50 microns, so the actual "GMO threat" may be posed by not what the bees > forage upon, but what wind-pollinated GMO grain pollen sources might be > upwind of the bees when they fly, perhaps pollen sources far beyond > foraging > range. Recall that a flying bee develops the same static charge that any > aircraft would, and, to parapharse Jerry Bromenshenk, "is a little flying > dustmop". So, what is the travel distance of wind-blown pollen? Back in 2011 when all this Court Circus started I got this information to the above question: "Transcontinental pollen: http://www.hutton.ac.uk/webfm_send/532 Is transcontinental pollen still alive? Maybe. No-one has shown it. But yes, it can also get into honey (in very low levels, sometimes) and give a positive PCR reaction. " As a French researcher from INRA said at the International Workshop GM Pollen in Honey, Berlin 13./14.12. 2011 "We european breath more GMO pollen daily than what we can eat from honey in a year". *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html