In today's paper

[Slowmodem]

Bayer is going to save the bees!   

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/06/11/3927216/big-business-on-the-line-in-debate.html

[Jen]

Yah Riiiiight! it's not just the bees... Bayer!!!!! it's All of the pollinators. If there is neonic or pesticide residue on the plants and the butterfly's, moths, bats land on the plants... yeah they're all going to die, just a matter of time ~

[Bamabww]

Well, I'm glad to hear that. Not. 

[rodmaker]

  Well at least they have hired a beekeeper to run the study. I feel that the biggest problem bees have is the varroa mite . The neonics don't help but is probably better than ddt and some that came before. I live around the almond orchards and i feel the so called tank mix fungicides are worse than neonics. All this is just my opinion and i would rather not have to worry about any of the pesticides but they are a necessary evil.

[Slowmodem]

I feel that the biggest problem bees have is the varroa mite .

I think you're probably right.  But in this part of the country, I think the hive beetles are going to give the mites a run for their money as the #1 problem eventually.

[Bakersdozen]

Gloom and doom!

[riverbee]

"Bayer CropScience's shiny new $2.4 million North American Bee Care Center demonstrates the company's commitment to finding ways to improve the health of these vitally important winged insects."


............
says it all for me.

[jayj200]

the link is broken. did someone get to the paper??

[riverbee]

yep jay, the link was broken.....

i THINK this is it......?

Debate over insecticides and bee health carries high stakes for Triangle