Keep forgetting one little thing in there push for greed the wondrous "BEE" still needs to pollinate those flowers---------------to create a harvest.....................

"The insecticide in question, clothianidin, is used as a coating on most of the corn and soybean seeds used in American agriculture. Farmers use it as a preventive to protect seedlings from insects in the soil. As the plant grows, the toxin grows with it, making the entire plant poisonous."


Good for for Pam Arnold................................YEAH.........................





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No. The poison in question is applied to the seed as dust. During planting it blew on the bees. Made in a chem lab.
The GMO seed may contain Bacillus Thuringensis genes that produce CRY proteins which are also toxic. Different.

You can get seed corn pre-coated with Clothianidin. It's only a neonicotinoid and is authorized for spray, dust, soil drench (for uptake via plant roots), injectable liquid (into tree limbs and trunks, sugar cane stalks etc.), and seed treatment uses, in which clothianidin coats seeds that take up the pesticide via the roots as the plant grows.

If you have coated seeds and you pass the seeds through some of those mechanical planters, a lot of dust can be kicked up. It sounds like in this case it was a dust used when seeds were planted. I've coated seeds with certain dusts when planting to speed up growth (the dusts I use are organic and wouldn't hurt a fly, literally).

But damn, I had no idea these nicotinoids drift so much and can be taken up by wild plants.

It's why if you're just growing a small amount of corn, you plant them in square groups instead of a single row.

Soybeans need pollinators. But the pollen has such a low concentration of anything that it's unclear except with "there's no safe limit claims" that it's a problem. "No safe limit" here often means that the "undetectably low" amounts presumed to be there must be toxic.

I wonder how many other species are getting sick because of this crap.

Industrial Ag Chemicals & Physical Diseases

Abstract

Agriculture has experienced major bio-technological advances and economic and socio-cultural disruptions since the publication of the white paper "Agriculture at Risk" in 1988. At that time it was recognized that there were acute needs in the prevention of musculoskeletal conditions, agricultural respiratory disease, noise-induced hearing loss, and pesticide-related illnesses, and the excesses of cancers noted in epidemiological studies of farmers.

In this paper, we will discuss the progress made in identification of new respiratory syndromes related to confined animal feeding operations, pesticide-related illnesses, cancers implicated with agricultural exposures, and ergonomics in agriculture. The focus will be upon the current state of knowledge in these areas, recommendations for further improvement in research techniques, and the potential application of this information to improve human health in production agriculture nation wide.

http://nasdonline.org/1827/d001772/human-health-effects-of-agriculture-physical-diseases-and.html

I've gotten to the point where "chemistry" is almost a dirty word to me.

It was such a mystery until now.

Damn them.

For years, the chemical industry has denied any connection between colony collapse and insecticides.