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RAH the bee devastation will happen all at once with the neonic.

Not knocking the science but the real world problem with the neonic is how the seeds are planted. The science is looking at the neonic being taken up by the treated plant and being in the pollen.

The big problem is how the seed is now planted. Years ago corn seed, you paid a premium for large flats. The disk planters worked best with large flats. Now today you pay a premium for large rounds. Today's planters push the seeds to the ground from long air tubes and a very large fan. Any extra neonic on the seed will then blown off into a very large dirt/neonic cloud that is incredibly toxic in the prevailing wind side of the day of planting.

If you have a flowering wild flower field that most all your worker bees are heading to that gets dosed with planter cloud you will loose many many bees. If they live they will bring back neonic and raise the amount in the honey.

In the end we our self are just big bugs it just takes more product to effect us.

I personally think in the future we will look at neonic as the DDT of the past.

Cheers Don.