"Those bone deformations don't form overnight, so I'm curious why the doctors associated them with stings from honey harvesting in August. Much more likely that they were due to neonicotinoid exposure." Once again Oliver is spot on. According to that world-wide fount of knowledge, Wikipedia, "During the late 1990s, primarily, imidacloprid became widely used." The 1999 study cited by Borst was simply the first of an avalanche of damning studies (Lu, World Wide Assessment, etc.) identifying the root cause civilization's unavoidable demise. Beware, the End is near! *********************************************** 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