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IMPAIRMENT OF OLFACTORY LEARNING PERFORMANCES OF HONEY BEE BY LONG TERM INGESTION OF IMIDACLOPRID (defective link)
http://www.lnb.cnrs-mrs.fr/fRENCH/activ/ISCE?posters25-49/posters25-49.html (good link, but look for article #26)

Le Gaucho est-il l'ennemi des abeilles ?

Gaucho registered
Bayer's new systemic insecticide Gaucho 480 FL has received regulatory approval in Canada. For use as a seed treatment on canola, rapeseed and mustard... read more

Adjust now Assail ST
The new canola seed treatment from Aventis, once called Adjust, is now Assail ST... read more

Gaucho Platinum could get lygus and weevil on label
Gustafson has applied to extend the label for Gaucho Platinum to include season-long control of aphids and suppression of lygus bug and seedpod weevil. Gaucho Platinum, the high-rate canola seed treatment... read more

Here is a good link about Imidacloprid from the Journal of Pesticide Reform

I have started a new email list for imidacloprid discussion and feedback about this site. I would appreciate it if those who are active in this matter would provide me with material along with specific suggestions as to where and how they think the material should be presented.

Stan Sandler has accumulated some information on imidacloprid in Canada and I am starting a new page for Canada.

I added more to it May 1st, 2001

France has extended the ban on imidacloprid. Here are the details:

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010206/l06140619.html

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010205/l05128351.html

Adony contributed this page by Jeffrey R. Bloomquist on the action of insecticides, including imidacloprid, on insect. Search the page for 'imidacloprid'.

Peter Dillon sent this very significant English translation of the COMPOSITE DOCUMENT OF PRESENT POSITION RELATING TO GAUCHO / SUNFLOWER and BEES from the Coordination des Apiculteurs de France -- Syndicat National d'Apiculture / Syndicat des Producteurs de Miel de France / Union Nationale d'Apiculture Française

Peter Keating provided these links:

http://www.msstate.edu/Entomology/v8n2/art06.html

http://151.99.190.57/fito/principi/imida.stm

http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/reports/admire.html

http://ace.orst.edu/info/nptn/factsheets/imidacloprid.htm

http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/haloxyfop-methylparathion/imid

http://www.nofleas.com/vets/Chemical.html

http://www.biologists.com/JEB/200/21/jeb1249.html

Also this one: http://www.edpsciences.org/articles/inra-agro/abs/2001/01/A1104/A1104.html

Veldon Sorensen, Ph.D., Director of Development, Bayer Inc. sent this contribution:

...I would like to inform you of sites where the results of Bayer's research regarding imidacloprid (Bayer's GAUCHO) can be located so that your readers can fully examine this issue.

Also, Bayer in Canada commissioned independent GAUCHO research in this country to further investigate this issue. This research is currently being completed by the University of Guelph. A Canadian report will be available soon and will be of interest to bee keepers and Canola growers in Canada.

The recommended sites are:

English: http://bayer-agro.com/index.cfm?PAGE_ID=324

German: http://www.bayer-agro.de/index.cfm?PAGE_ID=389

French: http://www.abeilles.bayer.fr/

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