intersting study on ag pesticides effect on honey bee larvae

[crwilson]

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%...l.pone.0077547

[rambler]

Its good to study stuff and learn and investigate.

These hive disorders appear in many places, where there would be a vast difference of pesticide types being used.

Some are happening where really no pesticides are being used.

As such its kinda hard to believe the colony collapse is being caused by a certain combination of pesticides that would not show up in all the different areas.

More study for sure.

They have been putting up theories on this for years now, and nothing holds up to closer examination.

Paul

[haypoint]

Lots to read. I will wait for a peer reviewed study. PLOS ONE is a new web site to me. Interesting that they are willing to print anything you write as long as you sign your name to it.
Honey Bee Collapse is complicated and IMHO, the cause is really numerous causes from a wide variety of stressors. Feeding high fructose corn sugar, hauling hives hundreds of miles and the changes in agriculture that reduces both the variety of flowering plants and the amount. Cover the earth in fields of weed-free organic corn and every honey bee will die.

[Maura]

I'm sure pesticides are a part of it and more than one kind would kill a bee. I think how they are fed, the high number of parasites, added to other stressers make them very susceptible.