If you want bee info, a great person to get a hold of is Rusty.
http://www.honeybeesuite.com/papers/
She's the director of the Native Bee Conservancy, as well as someone who
keeps up on bee research.
Another good resource is https://agdev.anr.udel.edu/maarec/category/ccd/
Frankly, time will tell if neonicotiniods are a major contributing
factor to CCD or not, based on the European experiment.
There is evidence to suggest that even quite low doses of some of these
pesticides can reduce the foraging efficiency of some species of bee.
For which see:
Morandin, L. A., and M. L. Winston. 2003. Effects of Novel Pesticides on
Bumble Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Colony Health and Foraging Ability.
Environmental Entomology 32:555-563.
Mommaerts, V., S. Reynders, J. Boulet, L. Besard, G. Sterk, and G.
Smagghe. 2010b. Risk assessment for side-effects of neonicotinoids
against bumblebees with and without impairing foraging behavior.
Ecotoxicology 19:207-215.
-m
On 06/12/2013 11:39 AM, Wayne Tyson wrote:
I'd like some better-informed opinion and references to replicated research on
this topic.
I'd especially like well-informed comments on this article:
http://www.nationofchange.org/worldwide-honey-bee-collapse-lesson-ecology-1371046688
WT
