Re: Bees dying off, ----from message posted in sci.chem

Bill wrote:
> The New York Times had a article on bats dying en masse in upstate New
> York. The issue
> was chronicled on Charlie Rose TV show tonight. And it was mentioned
> about bees dying off en masse
> also. Which I found surprizing that it came from the mouth of Charlie
> Rose and not the scientist
> from Cornell. Why surprizing? Because it should have come from the
> Cornell scientist rather
> than Charlie Rose.
> 
> But a very im****tant fact was omitted.
> 
> The fact that bees in France are not dying off en masse because a
> nicotine based pesticide was
> banned in France. This same pesticide is prevalently used in the USA
> where bees and bats are
> dying off.
> 
> Even a grade schooler of 10 years old can see some logic in that. That
> if France banns and
> prohibits a pesticide and thereafter no bees die off and no bats die
> off in France, that there
> would be some connection of the pesticide and the die off. Yet USA
> uses the pesticide
> prevalently and wastes alot of time in looking for anything other than
> pesticides
> and has bee and bat die off. Maybe the USA has only two logical
> persons who can
> reason? 
> 
> 




Care to share the name of the pesticide?

Who are the two logical people who can reason?

AL