On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:34:30 -0500, AL <lithar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>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?
>>
>>
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>Care to share the name of the pesticide?
Presumably a Neonicotinoid, brand names such as Platinum, Admire Pro,
Cruiser,Gaucho, Leverage, Actara, Venom, Provado, Alias, Pasada,
Couraze, Assail are shown on the list at
http://www.nationalpotatocouncil.org/NPC/p_do***ents/do***ent_280607084102.pdf
No idea which one in particular is banned in France. They are
certainly not immune from "CCD" but the majority of the "CCD" losses
worldwide have been in the USA, that's not to say there aren't huge
losses elsewhere but they are more recently becoming recognised as due
to varroa and warm winters.
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