I am quite taken aback by the responses on this thread to evidence of commercial products used to stop stinkbugs affecting rice , albeit in Japan, which are found to produce, under controlled conditions, all the symptoms of ccd over a month or three.
One of them, Clothianidin, is used in Europe and the US. the other, maybe not. But Chris seems quite relaxed that Dinotefuran is used in Japan, despite the fact that it is highly toxic to honeybees and is persistent and systemic, because it says that on the tin.
I thought this was a site centered around the business of looking after bees.
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