With our current highly sensitive analytical methods, many things can be found in antarctic ice too. In toxicology, the mantra is that "the dose makes the poison". Even water will kill you if you drink too much. Your second link is a case in point. The study shows that in one crop (canola) planted in the winter in one country, that some harm can be demonstrated to bees nesting very close by. All the land around my place is planted to crops treated with these same insecticides and both our honey bee hives and our wild bees are doing spectacular. Our bee keeper has at least 9 other locations and he says our bees produce the most honey and have the highest survival. We do ask him to keep his hives far from our commercial vegetable field so they won't compete with the wild native bees that we rely on.
Last edited by RAH; 10/08/17 04:25 AM.
