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Originally Posted by hunted
Question for you as an actual bee keeper. Are you for or against a neonic ban?
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I am undecided at the moment but leaning in favour of keeping them. Almost all the canola planted now has been seed treated and I know of no issues affecting the hundreds of thousand hive foraging on it in alberta. My understanding of the corn situation in Ontario is that the blame is being laid on the neonicotoid becoming airborne during seeding and solutions are being tested.
My thoughts are if a simple seed treatment can protect the plant for the entire crop year we won't see a return of crop dusting airplanes spraying poison directly onto my foraging bees. Even if it isn't sprayed directly on bloom it can still kill a lot of bees if the bees are flying over to the next field.