Re: Merit related to Colony Collapse Disorder??

**"* F* L* J* <l*@intrex.net>**

Hamptongar@aol.com wrote:
> I'm open minded about the link between CCD and Merit...HOWEVER  the 
> references to Imidacloprid as being 'new' raises some other red flags as  this product 
> has been available in the US for at least 15 years and possibly  longer.  From 
> what I know of it it's not terribly persistent and thus needs  to be 
> reapplied every year when used for grub control...and when it's applied at  the wrong 
> time...let's say May instead of July in the East...it can be  ineffective due 
> to it's short active life.  Now having said this...and  still being open 
> minded, I have to add that Suffolk County has banned it's use  by homeowners....but 
> not due to it's potential affect on bees but because it was  showing up in 
> ground water...a problem that Long Island had more than 25 years  ago with 

> aldibarb 

aldicarb?

> when it was used to control the Colorado potato  beetle.
>  
> So, before we start jumping out of windows...can anyone shed  more light on 
> the scientific aspects of Imidaclorprid and how it might be  affecting bee 
> populations?

http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=1809&topicId=26923&docId=l:656273582&start=9
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070728/bob9.asp

"Bt crops are far from the only pesticide sources a bee might buzz into. For example, the neonicotinoids, a class of 
insecticides based on nicotine, are toxic to honeybees. The recent USDA report says thatresearch it has funded suggests 
that widely used fungicides enhance the effects of the neonicotinoids. The report adds that one of them, imidaclorprid, 
has been found in pollen from corn, sunflowers, and rape at concentrations potentially harmful to bees."

-- 
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lflj@intrex.net
hillsborofarmersmarket@gmail.com
Venaura Farm http://venaurafarm.blogspot.com/
Agriculture, Market Farming & Permaculture
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