"trader_4" wrote in message news:15f40a95-
micky wrote:

where are the honey bees?

They're not around anymore - because of this:

http://www.dillonchem.com/images/PRO...m/CDRA2987.JPG


You must be a real genius to figure out what all the scientists
working on the problem haven't be able to.

I guess he is:

A United States appeals court ruled on Thursday that federal regulators
erred in allowing an insecticide developed by Dow AgroSciences onto the
market, canceling its approval and giving environmentalists a major victory.
The ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in
San Francisco, is significant for commercial beekeepers and others who say a
decline in bee colonies needed to pollinate key food crops is tied to the
widespread use of a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/11...secticide.html

It probably didn't take a genius to figure out. The EPA approved in 2010
(without rigorous testing) a new form of insecticide unlike anything
previously used and suddenly:

The Agriculture Department said this year that losses of managed honeybee
colonies hit 42.1 percent from April 2014 through April 2015, up from 34.2
percent for 2013-14 and the second-highest annual loss to date.

At least now the science will be done:

In its ruling, the court found that the E.P.A. relied on "flawed and
limited data" to approve the unconditional registration of sulfoxaflor, and
that approval was not supported by "substantial evidence."

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Bobby G.