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4 December 2019
"Architecture et marges, le Low-tech dans tous ses états"Klaas De Rycke participates in the round table « Vers une ''basse technologie'' des modes de représentation et de conception ? » as part of the symposium "Architecture et marges, le Low-tech dans tous ses états" organized by the group "Ressources".
The Symposium will be held at ENSACF Clermont-Ferrand.
Time: 9am to 6pm
22 November 2019
Topping out ceremony of the fire and rescue station, Igstadt, GermanyOn November 22nd, the topping-out ceremony of the new fire station III in Wiesbaden took place. The reinforced concrete shell located in the outskirts of Igstadt was erected in approx. 8 months.
Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure are responsible for structural engineering.
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9 November 2019
Inauguration of the two-story sports hall in FrankfurtAfter only two years of construction, the two-story sports hall with two three-field sports halls on top of each other were handed over to the Landessportbund Hesse in Frankfurt last weekend.
B+G were responsible for the structural engineering, the foundation sheeting and the thermal building physics planning.
7 November 2019
AMO 2019 Award: Two AwardsWe are happy to announce that two of our projects are among the winners of the AMO 2019 Award.
PRIX DU LIEU LE MIEUX PRODUCTIF: Frans Masereel Centrum
Client: Frans Masereel Centrum (BE) / Architects: LIST, Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture
PRIX DU MEILLEUR CATALYSEUR URBAIN: Alvéole 12
Client: City of Saint Nazaire, Sonadev / Architects: 51N4E, Bourbouze & Graindorge
The buildings were awarded among 170 competing projects by a jury chaired by Enrique Sobejano.
31 October 2019
Award for the Secondary School in Berlin MahlsdorfThe Integrated Secondary School is one of the winners of the 2019 Berlin Timber Construction Award in the "New Construction" category.
The initiators of this award want to support the increasing number of constructive timber buildings in Berlin concerning ecological and sustainable buildings and promote innovative construction methods.
Architects: NKBAK, Frankfurt, Germany
Structural engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure, Frankfurt, Berlin, Germany
22 November 2019
Computational and Parametric Design"Opportunities and challenges for structural engineering"
Lecture by Klaus Bollinger and Annette Bögle (HCU) Hamburg on the occasion of the "Ingenieurbaukust | Design for Construction 2020" symposium.
Venue: abk Weißenhof-Campus (new building 2)
Time: 13 o'clock
22 October 2019
"Construction Acier 2019" for the project "University library Belval" in LuxemburgWe are delighted to be awarded the prestigious steel construction prize of the Belgian steel construction association "Infosteel" for the university library in Esch-Belval. This year, the conversion of the Möllerhalle, a listed building, into a library with a museum character was awarded both the Jury Prize and the Audience Prize.
Architects: Valentiny hvp architects, Remerschen, Luxembourg
Structural engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure
19 October 2019
ObituaryWe mourn the loss of our good friend and colleague
Hendrik Laing
He worked with us from the beginning.
Without him, we would not be where we are today. We owe him a lot.
Our sympathy goes to his family,
especially to his wife Antje Laing and his children Nele and Sören.
Klaus Bollinger, Manfred Grohmann,
The management team and all colleagues.
October 2019
"Parkapartments am Belvedere" in the DBZ journalThe October issue of the "Deutsche Bauzeitschrift" (DBZ) focuses on structural engineering. Buildings were deliberately selected for this purpose that see the supporting structure as a central design element and thus make it a very special architectural statement.
15 October 2019
Return of the Frankfurt PavilionThe temporary structure was realized in collaboration with schneider + schumacher architekten. The iconic building was constructed for the first time on the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2018 and is also this year's venue for events with authors and industry experts from all over the world.
The space-defining construction was generated and optimized using genetic algorithms taking into account architectural and structural criteria.
07 October 2019
Torroja Medal for Manfred GrohmannAfter his plenary lecture at the IASS Symposium 2019 "Form and Force", Manfred Grohmann received the "Torroja Medal", which was awarded to him this year.
26 September 2019
Opening: University of Graz LibraryThe University of Graz celebrated the opening after the extension and renovation of the campus library. A new reading hall cantilevers 20m above the original 1890s building.
Bollinger + Grohmann was responsible for structural engineering.
September 2019
Completion: Temporary modular Kindergarden in Jardins du Luxembourg, ParisThe temporary kindergarten designed by Djuric Tardio Architectes in Jardin du Luxembourg has just been completed. Located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, this modular timber structure is fully demountable and reconfigurable.
B+G Paris was in charge of the structural design.
26 September 2019
Won: Fotografihuset in Sukkerbiten, NorwayIn competition with 97 other projects, Atelier Oslo won the international architectural competition for the design of the Fotografihuset in Sukkerbiten in Oslo. Bollinger + Grohmann was responsible for the structural design.
Image: Atelier Oslo
19 September 2019
How to become an apprentice in 10 minutes - 10 minutes to find an apprenticeshipThis year, Bollinger + Grohmann takes part for the first time in the Apprentice-Speed-Dating at the IHK in Frankfurt. The event offers people who are searching for an apprenticeship and companies the opportunity to find suitable apprentice positions or suitable applicants in 10 minutes.
Venue: Industrie- und Handelskammer, Börsenplatz 4, Frankfurt
Time: 10 am - 3 pm
7 - 10 October 2019
Plenary Lecture by Manfred Grohmann: Architecture und StructureThis year the joint international conference "IASS Symposium 2019" and the "Structural Membranes 2019" under the title "Form and Force" will take place from 7 to 10 October in Barcelona.
21 - 25 September 2019
Design modelling Symposium Berlin 2019By synthesizing artistic, theoretical and technological perspectives and positions, the Design Modelling Symposium will provide a platform for key research questions about the role of the digital age in relation to art, architecture and design, and the impact on the future of society, environment and innovation.
14 September - 06 October 2019
Stadtlabor FriederikeThe experimental structure FRIEDERIKE is presented as of the City of Vienna's cultural initiative to showcase art in an public space. Performances, concerts, film showings will be held under the temporary structure which runs from 14.09.2019 until 6.10.2019 in the 14th district of Vienna. Bollinger + Grohmann gave expert advice on the structural design.
12 September 2019
Omniturm. Work Life UnitedAt the 14th Jung architecture talks, Manfred Grohmann (B+G), Kai-Uwe Bermann (BIG) and Florian Reiff (Tishman Speyer) used the example of the Omniturm project to discuss what the combination of working and living means for architecture and interdisciplinary planning.
The event was held in the crowded Frankfurt Jugend- und Kulturkirche Sankt Peter in Frankfurt.
© JUNG.DE / Fotograf: Markus Eichelmann
11 September 2019
Tragwerksentwurf und -modellierung am Beispiel des Hochhauskomplexes FOUR, FrankfurtLecture by Simon Ruppert in the course of the seminar "Weiterbildung für Tragwerksplaner 2019: FE-Berechnung und Modellierung" at the TU Darmstadt.
Venue: TUD, Institut für Massivbau, Gebäude L3/01 Raum 93
Time: 4.45 - 5.15 pm
18 September 2019
SO FOUR SO GOOD Zum Tragwerksentwurf des ersten Hochhausclusters DeutschlandsThe second lecture by Simon Ruppert within the seminar "Weiterbildung für Tragwerksplaner 2019: FE-Berechnung und Modellierung", this time at the TU Kaiserslautern.
Venue: TU Kaiserslautern, Gebäude 46, Raum 210
Time: 4.45 - 5.15 pm
08 September 2019
Opening: Bauhaus Museum DessauThe opening of the Museum in Dessau is one of the highlights of the annyversary year of Bauhaus. For the first time the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's unique collection will be comprehensively displayed.
Bollinger + Grohmann was in charge of the structural and façade engineering, the fire protection planning as well as for the building physics.
06 - 07 September 2019
Bollinger + Grohmann future workshop in AntwerpOn 06 and 07 September, the team of the entire Bollinger + Grohmann Group came together to a workshop in Antwerp to discuss about roots, philosophy and future of our company.
September 2019
Connect 3/19: Norwegen verfolgt seine Ziele konsequentIn an interview with the business magazine of the AHK Norway, Michael Lommertz, Head of Sustainability B + G Oslo, gave an report on the sustainable construction in Norway. (page 32-37)
13 September 2019, 12 am - 2 pm
Just a simple engineering love affair. Workflow / Digital FabricationOn September, 13th, Klaas de Rycke (B+G Paris) will give a lecture at SCAU architecture in Paris.
Information and registration: firstname.lastname@example.com
29 August 2019
Lunch lecture at Gewers PudewillDaniel Pfanner (B+G) visited the colleagues of Gewers Pudewill end of August for a lunch lecture about the challenging façade engineering of the project Louvre in Lens, France.
Picture: Philipp Winter
6 August 2019
Opening of the new school and gymnasium in Berlin MahlsdorfThe new school for 550 pupils was completed on time at the beginning of the new school year, along with the gymnasium. The school is the first of three model projects that the Berlin Senate has commissioned to be built as a modular timber construction. The design for all three schools is by the architects NKBAK from Frankfurt, who worked in a joint-venture together with Bollinger + Grohmann, Ecotec (MEP) and Franz Reschke Landschaftsarchitektur.
Photo: Thomas Mayer
29 July 2019
1st prize: Xingtai Science and Technology MuseumCoop Himmelb(l)au wins Science & Technology Museum Competition in Xingtai, China. Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure was in charge of structural engineering.
23 July – 30 November 2019
Research project RegoLight at "ZERO GRAVITY" exhibitionThe exhibition "ZERO GRAVITY" revolves around concepts and ideas that defined and changed arts and science from the moment humankind stepped on the moon. Selected material from research project RegoLight, which Bollinger + Grohmann was part of between 2015 and 2017, will be a part of media artist Peter Kogler spatial installation at ERES-Stiftung in Munich.
Room installation by Peter Kogler, Ohne Titel, 2019, © the artist, Photo: Thomas Dashuber
4 July 2019
1st prize for "Kurfürstenstraße, Berlin"Congratulations to the team of Barkow Leibinger who won the competition about the "Wohn- und Bürokomplex Kurfürstenstrasse" in Berlin. B+G gave technical advice.
© Image: Barkow Leibinger
4 July 2019
2nd prize for "Heinrich-Hoffmann-Grundschule, Darmstadt"We are very happy about the 2nd prize, which Dietrich Untertrifaller Architekten received for the design of the "Heinrich-Hoffmann-Grundschule" in Darmstadt. B+G gave technical advice.
@ Image: Dietrich Untertrifaller Architekten
29 - 30 June 2019
Tag der Architektur 2019"Räume prägen" - this is the motto of this year's nationwide Architecture Day. Of a total of 76 selected examples in Hesse, three structures are also open to the public, and B+G was involved in their realisation with structural and/or façade engineering:
Kornmarkt-Arkaden, Frankfurt
Residential and office building Berger-/ corner Höhenstraße, Frankfurt
Headquarters Europe Musterhausküchen, Dreieich
09 June 2019
Installation of the timber construction modulesAfter the Marie Curie School, the August Gräser School in Frankfurt is currently being extended by a modular timber construction. The installation and assembly of the 12 modules only takes two days. The new premises should be ready for occupancy by August. B+G was responsible for the structural design as well as for the building physics.
19 June 2019
1st prize with Nieto Sobejano ArchitectosWe are happy about one of two 1st prizes within the competition of the new event hall and hotel with underground parking in the Kaiserpfalzquartier in Goslar. B+G gave technical advice. Auer Weber won a further 1st prize.
© Visualization: Nieto Sobejano Architectos
12 June 2019
Sykehusområde på Bragernes, DrammenTogether with Powerhouse Company and Skajaa arkitektkontor, B+G Oslo worked besides three other teams in the bidding process (Parallelloppdrag) for the conversion of the former hospital site in Drammen.
06 June 2019
Project WinnerWe are very happy to announce that our project "Gradient" is the winner of the international engineering, architectural, landscaping and integrated art competition held by the City of Nyon related to the development of Greater Geneva.
May 2019
MOCAPE - "Steel Construction" Volume 12, 2019The May issue of the magazine "Steel Construction" features an article about the MOCAPE Museum in Shenzhen written by B+G.
The project even made it onto the cover!
27 May 2019
First prize for "Bildungscampus " in PforzheimBruno Fioretti Marquez (BFM) won the competition for the "Bildungscampus" Pforzheim.
B+G supported the architects with the development of a 4- and 3-floor timber construction for two school buildings, a canteen and sports hall and the concept for the further development of three existing buildings.
22 May 2019
C40 Reinventing Cities: Winning project 'The Urban Village'Teaming up within "The Urban Village Team" with LPO Architects / SLA, Bollinger + Grohmann won within the C40 Reinventing Cities competition. The site is located in the northeast of Oslo and aims to drive carbon neutral and resilient urban regeneration focusing on social, environmental and economic sustainability. Bollinger + Grohmann is involved as an environmental expert and for the structural design.
Image: ©The Urban Village Team
3 May - 1 June 2019
Opening of the PLAY! exhibition in ParisThe exhibition is entirely dedicated to the project Quai de la Moselle sports center in Calais, France designed by Bureau faceB. Bollinger + Grohmann is responsible for the structural engineering.
Venue: Gallery ArchiLib, 49 boulevard de la Vilette, 75010 Paris.
14 May 2019
"Miljøvennlig materialbruk"Within the course of the Norwegian Architects Association (NAL) course for architects and other planners, Michael Lommertz (B+G Oslo) will give two lectures, one on the sustainable choice of materials and the other on recycling in the building industry.
7 May 2019
Winner MKNO: C40 - Reinventing CitiesTogether with Coldefy & Associates, Triptyque Architecture, SO-IL and as part of the team MKNO, Bollinger + Grohmann have been selected winners of the International Competition MBK in Bobigny - within the C40 Reinventing Cities to drive carbon neutral and resilient urban regeneration.
Bollinger + Grohmann is responsible for structural and façade engineering.
Image credit: © ArtefactoryLab / NODI
4 May - 13 July 2019
Biennale d'architecture et de paysage, VersaillesThe first Biennale of Architecture and landscaping hosts six exhibitions with the participation of French and international architects and landscapers in exceptional venues and focuses on the main theme "L'homme, la nature et la ville (Man, nature and the city)" and is open to the public.
Bollinger + Grohmann has worked on the structural design and has provided technical advice for several installations.
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09 April 2019
Topping out ceremony of the K1 in JenaThe future residential and commercial building with around 5,870 m² of residential and commercial space will be Jena's first high-rise since German reunification.
Bollinger + Grohmann was in charge of the structural engineering.
March / April 2019
New publications by B + GIn March/April, B+G is represented with a total of three articles in the "Stahlbau" and "Beton- und Stahlbetonbau" (Verlag Ernst und Sohn):
1. "Hyundai Motorstudio Goyang",
Stahlbau 88 (2019), Heft 3, S. 223-233
2. "Moderne Parametrik in der Tragwerksplanung",
Stahlbau 88 (2019), Heft 3, S. 184-193
3. "Eso Supernova", Besucherzentrum und Planetarium,
Beton- und Stahlbetonbau 114 (2019), S. 1-8
30 March 2019
Topping out ceremony at the Barmbeker BahnhofThe topping out ceremony of the new hotel and office building "Fuhle 101" in Hamburg Barmbek was celebrated at the end of March.
Architects: Bieling Architekten
Client: Development Partner AG und BL Gruppe
Structural Engineering: B+G
26 March 2019
Bollinger + Grohmann jetzt auch auf InstagramWith our new profile on Instagram, we extended our social media presence. We would like to use our account to give an overview and inform about our scope of work and projects during the different design and development phases. If you want to follow us, please use the link below:
6 March 2019
Deutscher Ingenieurbaupreis 2018Stadtwerke Düsseldorf and B+G donate the prize money.
1 March 2019
Competition "Hafenpark Quartier Frankfurt": 1st prizeFirst prize for the hotel design at "Molenspitze" in Frankfurt for Barkow Leibinger. Bollinger + Grohmann gave expert advice in structural engineering.
From 01/03/ to 14/03/2019, the nine submitted designs will be exhibited in the atrium of the Stadtplanungsamt at Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 10 in Frankfurt.
28 February 2019
The Frankfurt Pavilion wins the IDA Awardin the architectural category "Exhibits, Pavilions and Exhibitions". The new landmark of the Frankfurt Book Fair was designed as a temporary building and was opened in September 2018 for the first time.
Bollinger + Grohmann gave expert advice to the schneider+schumacher architects during the whole process and was in charge of the structural engineering.
28 February 2019
ISS Berlin-Mahlsdorf: topping-out ceremonyYesterday the topping-out ceremony was celebrated at the Integrated Secondary School Berlin-Mahlsdorf. Both the modular school building and the sports hall will be built in timber.
27 February 2019
And another topping-out ceremony: Extension Hager building DThe electrical engineering group Hager expands its headquarters in Blieskastel by an office building for another 100 workplaces.
The planning company schneider + schumacher is responsible for the architecture and site supervision. Bollinger + Grohmann had already completed two buildings at this site together with them.
26 February 2019, 7pm
Haute Agora : The opening of the exhibitionThe « Haute Agora » tower, a research project developed by the architect Jean Christophe Quinton and Bollinger + Grohmann Paris, will be exposed at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris from 27 February to 31 March 2019.
19 - 21 February 2019
63th BetonTage in Neu-Ulm: lecture by Holger Alpermann (B+G Berlin)Holger Alpermann is invited to talk about the Merck Campus Innovation centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
Venue: Kongresszentrum Neu-Ulm, Podium 7
Time: 20/02/2019, 2 pm
February 2019
JKU Campus - TNF TowerThe 18 metres tall steel grid construction of the new terrace at Johannes Kepler University in Linz is located on the TNF tower which is the tallest building on campus. The construction is planned to be completed in March 2019 which makes it the first of many new places for university visitors to discover!
11 February 2019
Tower of Power: Transport Design of the Year 2018The public charging station by Göbl Architektur in Vienna is awarded Dezeen's Transport Design of the Year 2018. A photovoltaic panel roof and a built-in wind turbine supply the station with necessary electricity to charge four electric cars and four electric bikes at a time.
Bollinger + Grohmann was responsible for the structural engineering.
9 February 2019
Franz Masereel Center: OpeningThe extension of the Franz Masereel Center, in Kasterlee, Belgium was opened on Thursday, 9 February 2019. The project has been designed by LIST and Hideyuki Nakayama Architects. B+G Paris & Brussels were already part of the competition team and afterwards responsible for the structural engineering.
Ido Avissar of LIST will give a lecture about the construction at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris, next Thursday, February 21th at 7pm.
November 2018
ECSN-Award: 2nd prize for Merck Campus in DarmstadtWe are very happy about the European Concrete Award 2018 for the Innovation Centre and Company Restaurant on the Merck campus in Darmstadt.
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President Barack Obama styles himself a wit, and some of his best material lately has to do with his abuse of his powers.
"Middle-class families can't wait for Republicans in Congress to do stuff," Obama told a crowd on the Georgetown Waterfront on July 1. "So sue me." Hilarity ensued.
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He cracked them up in Austin last week. "You hear some of them," he said, referring to Republicans, "'sue him,' 'impeach him.' Really? Really? For what? You're going to sue me for doing my job?"
He must have killed in a private meeting last month with activists who were pushing him to waive more immigration laws. According to POLITICO, the president resorted to one his favorite comic riffs: "You're not going to get me impeached, are you?"
One can only imagine the comedic possibilities in his 9-0 defeat in the Supreme Court in June for his blatantly abusive recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board or any of the court's other recent unanimous rebukes of his executive overreach.
It takes a truly blithe spirit to play the constitutional deformation of his office, and the ensuing congressional reaction, for laughs. Lightheartedness aside, if Obama means what he says, he doesn't understand the nature of his office. It's not the job of the president to defy the law if it's inconvenient, or to create new laws in the absence of congressional enactment. Rather, the opposite.
The constitutional injunction that the executive "take care that the Laws be faithfully executed" is not a suggestion. It is a requirement. It is designed to prevent the executive from unilaterally suspending laws, as English kings claimed the right to do. As a constitutional lawyer, the president must be familiar with the seedbed of American liberties, the English Bill of Rights of 1689, which states that "the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of parliament, is illegal."
The lawsuit against the president undertaken by House Speaker John Boehner targets the serial delay of Obamacare's employer mandate, just one of a number of seat-of-the-pants delays and alterations in the law. According to the text of the Affordable Care Act, the mandate was supposed to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2014. The administration nonetheless delayed it for an entire year via a Treasury Department blog post in July 2013.
Before his adoring audiences, the president says he has to act because Congress won't. In this case, Congress was happy to act. In fact, the House passed a bill to delay the mandate until Jan. 1, 2015. President Obama threatened to veto it.
Last February, the administration delayed the mandate yet again. It made a distinction between employers with 50 to 99 workers (the mandate won't apply to them until 2016) and employers with 100 or more workers (the mandate will apply to them beginning in 2015) that has no basis in the law, and layered on additional rules also created ex nihilo.

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Although her Friday admission to the LPGA is effective immediately, Thompson's decision to defer her membership makes her eligible to win Rookie of the Year honors next season.
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Every application that references a remote server using a standard database link establishes a connection between the local database and the remote database. Many users running applications simultaneously can cause a high number of connections between the local and remote databases.
Shared database links enable you to limit the number of network connections required between the local server and the remote server.
This section contains the following topics:
Configuring Shared Database Links
See Also:"What Are Shared Database Links?" for a conceptual overview of shared database links
Look carefully at your application and shared server configuration to determine whether to use shared links. A simple guideline is to use shared database links when the number of users accessing a database link is expected to be much larger than the number of server processes in the local database.
The following table illustrates three possible configurations involving database links:
|Link Type
|Server Mode
|Dedicated/shared server
|If your application uses a standard public database link, and 100 users simultaneously require a connection, then 100 direct network connections to the remote database are required.
|Shared server
|If 10 shared server processes exist in the local shared server mode database, then 100 users that use the same database link require 10 or fewer network connections to the remote server. Each local shared server process may only need one connection to the remote server.
|If 10 clients connect to a local dedicated server, and each client has 10 sessions on the same connection (thus establishing 100 sessions overall), and each session references the same remote database, then only 10 connections are needed. With a nonshared database link, 100 connections are needed.
Shared database links are not useful in all situations. Assume that only one user accesses the remote server. If this user defines a shared database link and 10 shared server processes exist in the local database, then this user can require up to 10 network connections to the remote server. Because the user can use each shared server process, each process can establish a connection to the remote server.
Clearly, a nonshared database link is preferable in this situation because it requires only one network connection. Shared database links lead to more network connections in single-user scenarios, so use shared links only when many users need to use the same link. Typically, shared links are used for public database links, but can also be used for private database links when many clients access the same local schema (and therefore the same private database link).
Note:In a multitiered environment, there is a restriction that if you use a shared database link to connect to a remote database, then that remote database cannot link to another database with a database link that cannot be migrated. That link must use a shared server, or it must be another shared database link.
To create a shared database link, use the keyword
SHARED in the
CREATE DATABASE LINK statement:
CREATE SHARED DATABASE LINK dblink_name [CONNECT TO username IDENTIFIED BY password]|[CONNECT TO CURRENT_USER] AUTHENTICATED BY schema_name IDENTIFIED BY password [USING 'service_name'];
Whenever you use the keyword
SHARED, the clause
AUTHENTICATED BY is required. The schema specified in the
AUTHENTICATED BY clause must exist in the remote database and must be granted at least the
CREATE SESSION privilege. The credentials of this schema can be considered the authentication method between the local database and the remote database. These credentials are required to protect the remote shared server processes from clients that masquerade as a database link user and attempt to gain unauthorized access to information.
After a connection is made with a shared database link, operations on the remote database proceed with the privileges of the
TO user or
CURRENT_USER, not the
BY schema.
The following example creates a fixed user, shared link to database
sales, connecting as
scott and authenticated as
CREATE SHARED DATABASE LINK link2sales CONNECT TO scott IDENTIFIED BY tiger AUTHENTICATED BY linkuser IDENTIFIED BY ostrich USING 'sales';
See Also:Oracle Database SQL Language Reference for information about the
CREATE DATABASE LINK statement
You can configure shared database links in the following ways:
In the configuration illustrated in Figure 30-1, a shared server process in the local server owns a dedicated remote server process. The advantage is that a direct network transport exists between the local shared server and the remote dedicated server. A disadvantage is that extra back-end server processes are needed.
Note:The remote server can either be a shared server or dedicated server. There is a dedicated connection between the local and remote servers. When the remote server is a shared server, you can force a dedicated server connection by using the (
SERVER=DEDICATED) clause in the definition of the service name.
Figure 30-1 A Shared Database Link to Dedicated Server Processes
The configuration illustrated in Figure 30-2 uses shared server processes on the remote server. This configuration eliminates the need for more dedicated servers, but requires the connection to go through the dispatcher on the remote server. Note that both the local and the remote server must be configured as shared servers.
Figure 30-2 Shared Database Link to Shared Server
See Also:Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide for information about the shared server option


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superiors, have come under administrative investigation.
The killers of journalists in many less developed nations often work in collusion with corrupt government officials, CPJ research has long shown. For more than a year irregularities in the Oakland police investigation into the murder of one of the Bay area's most respected community journalists rivaled the botched or compromised murder investigations in nations from Mexico to Mozambique.
Take Sgt. Derwin Longmire, the homicide detective in the Bailey murder case. The Oakland Police Department assigned him to lead the investigation, even though his superiors knew the detective was closely associated with a man then suspected of multiple crimes, Yusuf Bey IV, and whom a grand jury is now considering indicting on charges of ordering the journalist's murder.
"It's unusual but not unethical," then-Assistant Chief Howard Jordan told Anderson Cooper of CBS News' "60 Minutes" in February 2008. In an interview today with CPJ, Jordan said he has reconsidered his position.
"The allegations as to Sgt. Longmire were not [then] available," now-Acting Chief Jordan told CPJ. "I felt he was the best officer for the job," he added. "I have changed my position on that."
Sgt. Longmire and two of his superior officers, Lt. Ersie Joyner, the former head of the homicide unit, and Deputy Chief Jeff Loman are each under administrative investigation, Jordan told CPJ. All three officers face possible disciplinary action for their handling or supervision of the Bailey murder case.
Grand jury indictments are expected soon, and they may include Bey. In testimony before the grand jury this week, gunman Devaughndre Broussard said he committed the killing at the behest of Bey, his boss at an Oakland establishment called "Your Black Muslim Bakery," the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
"Broussard," Jordan told CPJ, "is affirming the things that we've suspected all along."
Then why did it take more than 20 months to finally prepare a case against him? "We've said that Mr. Bey is a suspect," Jordan said. "But we didn't have enough information then to charge Mr. Bey."
Jordan declined comment on other irregularities in the Oakland police investigation, many of which were brought to light by journalists reporting for the Chauncey Bailey Project.
Broussard was part of the kitchen crew of "Your Black Muslim Bakery," an Oakland establishment that Bey, 23, inherited from his late father. The bakery's ownership and staff have long been linked through felony convictions and press reports to crimes including extortion, fraud, car theft, sexual abuse of minors, assault, and murder. Bey was already wanted on various felony charges and was under police surveillance at the time of Bailey's murder. Bailey was investigating the finances of the bakery at the time of his death.
This week, Broussard told the grand jury that Bey ordered him to take sole responsibility for the Bailey murder, according to Broussard's attorney, La Rue Grim, who was quoted in the Chronicle. Broussard had previously confessed to the crime but said he had acted alone. Now Broussard is negotiating a plea agreement for his different roles in murdering the journalist and two other men, the Chauncey Bailey Project reported. The grand jury is weighing whether to indict Bey along with another young man associated with the bakery, Antoine Mackey, in Bailey's murder. Bey's attorney, Anne Beles, told the Chronicle that Bey had nothing to do with the murder. Mackey has yet to respond to news reports about his alleged involvement.
Chauncey Bailey had just been promoted to editor of the Post Newspaper Group, a consortium of African-American-owned weekly newspapers focusing on the Bay area's black communities when he was shot dead one morning on the way to his office. Immediately after, police raided the bakery and arrested Bey and other suspects on unrelated charges of kidnapping and assault, including the torture of women. But police charged only Broussard in Bailey's murder.
Sgt. Longmire then did something that, on the face of it, seems highly irregular. The homicide detective put the murder suspect, Broussard, in a closed interrogation room with his former boss, Bey, then incarcerated on other charges. Sgt. Longmire allowed the two suspects to speak to each other alone without recording their conversation.
The police action seems even odder in the face of other evidence uncovered by Bailey's colleagues. The Chauncey Bailey Project obtained Bey's cell phone records, reporting that they show that Bey made a series of calls to his bakery associates and others within minutes of Bailey's murder. The project also reported that other police detectives investigating crimes prior to Bailey's murder had placed a tracking device on Bey's car, and that the device placed the car outside Bailey's apartment building the night before his murder.
For more than a year, however, Oakland police charged only Broussard with the crime, suggesting that he murdered Bailey on his own. Only in response to a series of investigative reports by the Chauncey Bailey Project did the police finally admit, in November 2008, that they had suspected Bey of being involved in the murder "within the first 24 hours of our investigation."
The evidence produced by the project and other Bay-area news outlets included a video of Bey speaking with other suspects associated with the bakery in a different interrogation room in a nearby police department. Thevideo was recorded by the San Leandro Police Department just four days after Bailey's murder. On it, Bey says he put the gun used to kill Bailey in his closet after the shooting. He mocks the fatal blast to the journalist's head. He boasts that Longmire was protecting him from being charged, and that together he and Longmire decided to blame Broussard alone for the murder. Bey later said in an interview, according to the project, that he made up stories to mislead police in the interrogation room conversation captured on video.
Last November, in response to reporting by the project, both the city of Oakland and the state of California opened separate oversight investigations into the Oakland Police Department's murder investigation. Longmire was also removed from the case and reassigned to patrol duty, according to recent news reports. The head of the homicide unit, Lt. Ersie Joyner, was also removed from the unit and put on patrol duty.
Acting Chief Jordan told CPJ that Lt. Joyner's transfer from the homicide unit was "part of an overall transfer of lieutenants" within the department and that it had nothing to do with the Bailey murder investigation.
Longmire was put on paid leave last week while he is under administrative investigation, Jordan said. Deputy Chief Loman has been on paid leave since February on unrelated charges of sexual harassment.


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Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder: video from Japan
Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder: video from Japan
Last edited by Stromnessbees; 03-03-2013 at 07:37 PM.
A Spring Without Bees
by Michael Schacker
and here on video:
Honey bee survival rate better in west of Scotland
A further study led by Dr Connolly analysed colony failures over winter across the country. Of 89 colonies that had fed on oilseed rape, 27 failed, a death rate of 30 per cent. By contrast, 13 out of 82 colonies which had not fed on oilseed rape died a smaller failure rate of 16 per cent.
Dr Connolly believes nicotine-based pesticides, neonicotinoids, may be contributing to the deaths of bees feeding on the crop, which is more commonly grown in the east.
He said: All oilseed rape is treated with neonicotinoids, you cant buy it without it being pre-treated with neonicotinoids.
Comparative Sublethal Toxicity of Nine Pesticides on Olfactory Learning Performances of the Honeybee Apis mellifera
A. Decourtye, 1J. Devillers,2E. Genecque,3K. Le Menach,4H. Budzinski,4S. Cluzeau,1M. H. Pham-Del(gue3
Using a conditioned proboscis extension response (PER) assay, honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) can be trained to associate an odor stimulus with a sucrose reward. Previous studies have shown that observations of conditioned PER were of interest for assessing the behavioral effects of pesticides on the honeybee. In the present study, the effects of sublethal concentrations of nine pesticides on learning performances of worker bees subjectedto the PER assay were estimatedand compared. Pesticides were tested at three concentrations. The highest concentration of each pesticide corresponded to the median lethal dose value (48-h oral LD50), received per bee and per day, divided by 20. Reduced learning performances were observedfor bees surviving treatment with fipronil, deltamethrin, endosulfan, and prochloraz. A lack of behavioral effects after treatment with k-cyalothrin, cypermethrin, s-fluvalinate, triazamate, and dimethoate was recorded. No-ob-served-effect concentrations (NOECs) for the conditioned PER were derived for the studied pesticides. Our study shows that the PER assay can be usedfor estimating sublethal effects of pesticides on bees. Furthermore, comparisons of sensitivity as well as the estimation of NOECs, useful for regulatory purposes, are possible.
Quantification of Imidacloprid Uptake in Maize Crops
J. M. Bonmatin ,* P. A. Marchand , R. Charvet , I. Moineau , E. R. Bengsch , and M. E. Colin
Centre de biophysique moléculaire, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) & Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 02, France, and Laboratoire de Pathologie Comparée des Invertébrés, Université de Montpellier II, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
J. Agric. Food Chem., 2005, 53 (13), pp 53365341
DOI: 10.1021/jf0479362
Publication Date (Web): June 2, 2005
The systemic imidacloprid is one of the most used insecticides in the world for field and horticultural crops. This neurotoxicant is often used as seed-dressing, especially for maize, sunflower, and rape. Using a LC/MS/MS technique (LOQ = 1 μg/kg and LOD = 0.1 μg/kg), the presence of imidacloprid has been measured in maize from field samples at the time of pollen shed, from less than 0.1 μg/kg up to 33.6 μg/kg. Numerous random samples were collected throughout France from 2000 to 2003. The average levels of imidacloprid measured are 4.1 μg/kg in stems and leaves, 6.6 μg/kg in male flowers (panicles), and 2.1 μg/kg in pollen. These values are similar to those found previously in sunflower and rape. These results permit evaluation of the risk to honeybees by using the PEC/PNEC ratios (probable exposition concentrations/predicted no effect concentration). PEC/PNEC risk ratios were determined and ranged between 500 and 600 for honeybees foraging on maize treated with imidacloprid by seed dressing. Such a high risk factor can be related to one of the main causes of honeybee colony losses.
The corn pollen as a food source for honeybees
DOI: 10.4025/actasciagron.v33i4.10533
Acta Scientiarum. Agronomy Maringá, v. 33, n. 4, p. 701-704, 2011
Darclet Teresinha Malerbo-Souza
This experiment was conducted on the campus of the University Center Moura Lacerda, Ribeirão Preto, in 2009 an d 2010 with the objective of verifying the attractiveness of corn pollen for the Africanized honeybees Apis mellifera. The frequency of these bees, and the foraging behavior and stability were obtained by counting the first 10 min. of each hour, from 7.00 to 18.00, on three different days. Africanized honey bees collected only pollen in male flowers of maize, with a peak frequency of 9.00 in 2009 and between 16.00 and 17.00 in 2010. The corn pollen was very collected by Africanized honey bees, an important food source for these bees.
Evaluation of the nutritive value of maize for honey bees
Nicole Höcherl
Reinhold Siede
Ingrid Illies
Heike Gätschenberger
Jürgen Tautz
BEEGroup, Biozentrum Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
LLH Bieneninstitut Kirchhain, Erlenstraße 9, D-35274 Kirchhain, Germany
LWG, Fachzentrum Bienen, An der Steige 15, D-97209 Veitshöchheim, Germany
Received 23 September 2011
Received in revised form 1 December 2011
Accepted 2 December 2011
Available online 7 December 2011
In modern managed agro-ecosystems, the supply of adequate food from blooming crops is limited to brief periods. During periods of pollen deficiencies, bees are forced to forage on alternative crops, such as maize. However, pollen of maize is believed to be a minor food source for bees as it is thought to be lack ing in proteins and essential amino acids. This study was conducted to verify this assumption. In maize, a strikingly low concentration of histidine was found, but the amount of all other essential amino acids was greater than that of mixed pollen. The performance and the immunocompetence of bees consuming a pure maize pollen diet (A) was compared to bees feeding on a polyfloral pollen diet (B) and to bees feeding on an artificial substitute of pollen (C). Consumption of diets A and C were linked to a reduction in brood rearing and lifespan. However, no immunological effects were observed based on two parameters
of the humoral immunity.
Mixed pollen was collected by bees in June 2009 during the offbloom period of maize using commercial pollen traps. The pollen loads were removed daily in the evening and frozen to 18 C. Before the pollen was fed to the bees (colonies and caged bees) the pollen loads were ground and later mixed with honeydew honey (fir tree) to create a paste (ratio 2.5:1, wt/wt). Maize pollen (variety Athletico KWS, Einbeck, Germany) was collected by hand, ...
journaling the growth of a (mite) treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
journaling the growth of a (mite) treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
journaling the growth of a (mite) treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
peter l. borst writes on bee-l:
"What really happened:
Several European countries have suspended the use of certain pesticides in response to incidents involving acute poisoning of honey bees. To EPA's knowledge, none of the incidents that led to suspensions have been associated with Colony Collapse Disorder. The following are the countries in which pesticides have been suspended, the pesticides in question, and the current registration status for the pesticide:
France - Sunflower and corn seed treatments of the active ingredient imidacloprid are suspended in France; other imidacloprid seed treatments, such as for sugar beets and cereals, are allowed, as are foliar uses.
Germany - The use of a number of seed treatment pesticides was temporarily suspended following an incident in May 2008 in which many bees were inadvertently poisoned. However, after investigating the factors contributing to the situation, Germany lifted the suspensions with the exception of the neonicotinoid clothianidin, which remains suspended as a seed treatment for corn.
Italy - Certain imidacloprid and other neonicotinoid seed treatment uses were suspended temporarily, but foliar uses are allowed. This action was taken based on preliminary monitoring studies in northern and southern regions of Italy showing that bee losses were correlated with the application of seeds treated with these compounds; Italy also based its decision on the known acute toxicity of these compounds to pollinators.
Slovenia - Neonicotinoid seed treatments for maize and oil seed rape (canola) were temporarily suspended. The suspension was based on poor seed treatment methods resulting in release of dust during the seed sowing process. In August 2008, the suspension for oil seed rape seed treatments was lifted due to improved seed treatment methods and seed sowing equipment.
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/about/...opean-ban.html "
journaling the growth of a (mite) treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
for those who haven't seen it yet:
journaling the growth of a (mite) treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Central Archive for all Recent Papers on Neonics, Bee-Deaths and Bird Deaths associated with Neonics
Here is a sample:
This policy note from the EU Department for Economic and Scientific Policy contains some useful summaries of relevant research, including soil persistence rates, and defers in relation to pesticide authorisations to the on-going review by the European Food Safety Authority. The policy concludes that the precautionary principle in accordance with the Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 should be applied when using neonicotinoids.
The Impact of the Nations Most Widely Used Insecticides on Birds American Bird Conservancy, March 2013. This report shows that similar errors in risk assessment have been made with regard to birds as were made to insects the chronic/reproductive toxicity of neonicotinoids to birds is high. This was recognised very early on in the regulatory reviews of the various active ingredients. Yet high reproductive toxicity in birds is typically ignored in the pesticide review process.
Sublethal doses of imidacloprid decreased size of hypopharyngeal glands and respiratory rhythm of honeybees in vivo
1) No food crops in the USA have suffered yield losses due to a shortage of honeybees.
2) Wildflowers growing in the vicinity of neonic treated crops in the USA continue to set alot of seed because both honeybees and wild pollinators like hover flies and butterflies continue to be common along the edges of the neonic treated crop fields.
3) Bats continue to be common in the evening in the vicinity of farm buildings that are surrounded by neonic treated crops because there are still lots of insects flying around in the evening.
4) Leopard frogs continue to be common along the margins of fields of Roundup Ready Corn and Soybeans in the Midwest USA.
5) Birds continue to be common in the tree hedgerows and shelter belts that are surrounded by neonic treated crops because there still lots of earthworms and other invertebrates for them to eat in the neonic treated crop soil plus they can find wildflower seeds along the crop margins.
One of my co-worker received the following in an email.
May 2, 2013
USDA and EPA Release New Report on Honey Bee Health
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a comprehensive scientific report on honey bee health. The report states that there are multiple factors playing a role in honey bee colony declines, including parasites and disease, genetics, poor nutrition and pesticide exposure.
"There is an important link between the health of American agriculture and the health of our honeybees for our country's long term agricultural productivity," said Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan. "The forces impacting honeybee health are complex and USDA, our research partners, and key stakeholders will be engaged in addressing this challenge."
"The decline in honey bee health is a complex problem caused by a combination of stressors, and at EPA we are committed to continuing our work with USDA, researchers, beekeepers, growers and the public to address this challenge," said Acting EPA Administrator Bob Perciasepe. "The report we've released today is the product of unprecedented collaboration, and our work in concert must continue. As the report makes clear, we've made significant progress, but there is still much work to be done to protect the honey bee population."
In October 2012, a National Stakeholders Conference on Honey Bee Health, led by federal researchers and managers, along with Pennsylvania State University, was convened to synthesize the current state of knowledge regarding the primary factors that scientists believe have the greatest impact on managed bee health.
Key findings include:
Parasites and Disease Present Risks to Honey Bees:
The parasitic Varroa mite is recognized as the major factor underlying colony loss in the U.S. and other countries. There is widespread resistance to the chemicals beekeepers use to control mites within the hive. New virus species have been found in the U.S. and several of these have been associated with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
Increased Genetic Diversity is Needed:
U.S. honeybee colonies need increased genetic diversity. Genetic variation improves bees thermoregulation (the ability to keep body temperature steady even if the surrounding environment is different), disease resistance and worker productivity.
Honey bee breeding should emphasize traits such as hygienic behavior that confer improved resistance to Varroa mites and diseases (such as American foulbrood).
Poor Nutrition Among Honey Bee Colonies:
Nutrition has a major impact on individual bee and colony longevity. A nutrition-poor diet can make bees more susceptible to harm from disease and parasites. Bees need better forage and a variety of plants to support colony health.
Federal and state partners should consider actions affecting land management to maximize available nutritional forage to promote and enhance good bee health and to protect bees by keeping them away from pesticide-treated fields.
There is a Need for Improved Collaboration and Information Sharing:
Best Management Practices associated with bees and pesticide use, exist, but are not widely or systematically followed by members of the crop-producing industry. There is a need for informed and coordinated communication between growers and beekeepers and effective collaboration between stakeholders on practices to protect bees from pesticides.
Beekeepers emphasized the need for accurate and timely bee kill incident reporting, monitoring, and enforcement.
Additional Research is Needed to Determine Risks Presented by Pesticides:
The most pressing pesticide research questions relate to determining actual pesticide exposures and effects of pesticides to bees in the field and the potential for impacts on bee health and productivity of whole honey bee colonies.
Those involved in developing the report include USDA's Office of Pest Management Policy (OPMP), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Agricultural Research Services (ARS), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), National Resource Conversation Service (NRCS) as well as the EPA and Pennsylvania State University. The report will provide important input to the Colony Collapse Disorder Steering Committee, led by the USDA, EPA and the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
An estimated one-third of all food and beverages are made possible by pollination, mainly by honey bees. In the United States, pollination contributes to crop production worth $20-30 billion in agricultural production annually. A decline in managed bee colonies puts great pressure on the sectors of agriculture reliant on commercial pollination services. This is evident from reports of shortages of bees available for the pollination of many crops.
The Colony Collapse Steering Committee was formed in response to a sudden and widespread disappearance of adult honey bees from beehives, which first occurred in 2006. The Committee will consider the report's recommendations and update the CCD Action Plan which will outline major priorities to be addressed in the next 5-10 years and serve as a reference document for policy makers, legislators and the public and will help coordinate the federal strategy in response to honey bee losses.
To view the report, which represents the consensus of the scientific community studying honey bees, please visit: http://www.usda.gov/documents/ReportHoneyBeeHealth.pdf
Macro-Invertebrate Decline in Surface Water Polluted with Imidacloprid
Tessa C. Van Dijk, Marja A. Van Staalduinen, Jeroen P. Van der Sluij
Imidacloprid is one of the most widely used insecticides in the world. Its concentration in surface water exceeds the water quality norms in many parts of the Netherlands. Several studies have demonstrated harmful effects of this neonicotinoid to a wide range of non-target species. Therefore we expected that surface water pollution with imidacloprid would negatively impact aquatic ecosystems.
Availability of extensive monitoring data on the abundance of aquatic macro-invertebrate species, and on imidacloprid concentrations in surface water in the Netherlands enabled us to test this hypothesis. Our regression analysis showed a significant negative relationship (P<0.001) between macro-invertebrate abundance and imidacloprid concentration for all species pooled. A significant negative relationship was also found for the orders Amphipoda, Basommatophora, Diptera, Ephemeroptera and Isopoda, and for several species separately. The order Odonata had a negative relationship very close to the significance threshold of 0.05 (P = 0.051). However, in accordance with previous research, a positive relationship was found for the order Actinedida.
We used the monitoring field data to test whether the existing three water quality norms for imidacloprid in the Netherlands are protective in real conditions. Our data show that macrofauna abundance drops sharply between 13 and 67 ng l−1. For aquatic ecosystem protection, two of the norms are not protective at all while the strictest norm of 13 ng l−1 (MTR) seems somewhat protective. In addition to the existing experimental evidence on the negative effects of imidacloprid on invertebrate life, our study, based on data from large-scale field monitoring during multiple years, shows that serious concern about the far-reaching consequences of the abundant use of imidacloprid for aquatic ecosystems is justified.
May 3, 2013
Bees Survival: Ban More Pesticides?
Neonicotinoids are under intense scrutiny. But a ban on a broad variety of pesticides may be required to protect bees, humans and the environment.
The European Commission, on 29th April 2013, slapped a two-year ban on insecticides suspected of killing-off bee colonies. This follows the European Food Safety Authority finding that they pose a high acute risk to honey bees. Studies suggest that the nicotine-like compounds fry bees' navigation systems and leave them unable to learn, while weakening their immune system.
But scientists now warn that other nerve-agents targeting insect pests may also be harming bees and other pollinators.
"These neonicotinoids are just one of hundreds of compounds being used and I would be surprised if it was all down to just these chemicals," says Christopher Connolly, a neuro-scientist at the University of Dundee, UK. He argues that we should not allow farmers spray a toxic soup of chemicals onto their crops.
Pesticides not adequately tested
Connolly exposed bee brains to these pesticides and organo-based pesticides and reported that the nerves spun into hyperactivity and then stopped working. A combination of these two pesticides types had a stronger impact, suggesting the combined soup of pesticides could be causing more serious harm.
"I don't understand how this was missed. As a neuroscientist it just seemed blindingly obvious. The biggest effect was hyper-activation of the major learning centre, which was completely predictable," Connolly said.
The nerve agents effects were missed because safety-screens only looked to see how many honey bees die after four days exposure to the pesticide in question. But harm to the bees is only evident over a period of two weeks in bumblebees and is only seen when you look at entire colonies.
"So the safety test is all wrong. The thing that concerns me is that this throws a question mark over several hundred pesticides, all tested by inadequate safety screens," says Connolly. He suggests that we should be tracking pesticides use in the environment, just like we monitor drug use in patients.
Not collecting such data might even pose health issues for people.
"Bear in mind we have lots of 'idiopathic' diseases (diseases of unknown origin) in humans, which we don't know the cause of and given that we don't know what pesticides are used in what combinations and when, we don't know if these pesticides may be contributing to some or even all these unknown diseases," Connolly warns.
More research needed
Connolly argues that we need to carry out research to find out which pesticides are the least harmful.
If neonicotinoids are the least toxic, then we should go with them. He says governments have under-funded this research area partly because it is inconvenient to find pesticides are dangerous.
Dave Goulson, Professor of Biological Science at the University of Stirling, UK agrees:
"there haven't been nearly enough studies of all pesticides or interactions between them."
He recently published a study showing neonicotinoids hit bumblebee colony growth and queen production.
He also said: "beneficial insects such as ladybirds and bees are exposed to lots of different chemicals and we have a really poor understanding of what it does to them." He also points out that we need to be concerned with what we replace these nerve agents with.
More research may be helpful, but industry criticises extrapolation of lab studies to field conditions. Julian Little, spokesperson for Bayer Cropscience, based in Norwich, UK, says the evidence against these pesticides has all been lab based, essentially taking a social insect and force-feeding it insecticide. It says the results cannot be replicated in the environment.
But he also agrees more monitoring of pollinators is needed. "Where you do get large-scale bee deaths not enough has been done to know exactly what has happened," Little commented. He says pests and loss of feeding sites and nesting sites are most likely behind bee declines. "France has had restrictions [of neonicotinoids] over the last ten years, yet the bees there remain as bad if not worse than they are in the UK."Avoidance of pesticide use
A possible solution to preserve bee populations further would be to restore the principle of avoidance of pesticide use.
"The whole ethos of pest management has gone in the wrong direction," Goulson argues. Whereas integrated pest management sought to use as few pesticides as possible, the neonicotinoids are a preventive strike.
"A simple analogy is that it's like taking antibiotics in case you get ill rather than when you get ill. Everyone knows that is a silly idea, as it results in bacteria rapidly developing resistance. It is the same with these pesticides."
However, opponents believe that the neonicotinoids ban is unlikely to decrease pesticide use. Quite the opposite.
Julian Little of Bayer warns that farmers may now have to resort to spraying insecticides up to four times a year, now that they cannot coat seeds in neonicotinoids.
But other experts do not agree. There are several alternatives to using neonicotinoids, and other pesticides, according to Simon Potts, professor of biodiversity and ecosystem services at Reading University, UK.
"This is a great opportunity for farmers to adopt these practices to protect bees and other pollinators".Indeed, he believes farmers will benefit from healthy pollinator populations as they provide substantial economic benefits to crop pollination.
"Few people would disagree that we need to protect our food production, but it shouldn't be at the cost of damaging the environment," Potts said, adding:
"A short-term decision to keep using harmful products may be convenient, but will almost certainly have much greater long-term costs for food production and the environment."
CBC Edmonton: May 3, 2013 2:18 PM MT
Canada wrestles with bee-killing crop pesticides
Government recommends mitigation measures, not ban
Canadian government scientists have found evidence that neonicotinoid pesticides were linked to mass bee deaths during the spring corn planting in Ontario and Quebec in 2012. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters)
Canadians beekeepers, farmers and regulators are wrestling with how to protect bees from popular pesticides that were partially banned in Europe this week.
The European Commission announced Monday that it would go ahead with a partial two-year ban on three kinds of neonicotinoid pesticides that have been linked to bee deaths. The pesticides are used to coat most commercial corn seeds and protect them from pests such as seed-eating insects.
Canadian government scientists have found evidence that neonicotinoid pesticides were linked to mass bee deaths during the spring corn planting in Ontario and Quebec in 2012, Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency confirmed in a report.
Read more about Health Canada's findings HERE:
To ban or not to ban?
That has some people, such as Dan Davidson, president of the Ontario Beekepers' Association, calling for the use of the neonicotinoid pesticides to be restricted in Canada also.
Listen to the full interviews on 'The Current'"I think the best for beekeepers would be a ban," he told CBC's The Current. "We have to call for replacement of these chemicals.
We won't be able to keep going on if they continue to be used at the rates they're being used now."
The environmental advocacy group Sierra Club Canada is similarly calling for a Canada to take the pesticides off the market until they have been proven safe.
However, Kevin Armstrong, a farmer who grows corn, wheat and soybean south of Woodstock, Ont., said neonicotinoid pesticides are essential for protecting corn seeds and seedlings during their crucial first month.
"It is a kind of insurance policy for us," he told The Current. "The vigour of the whole plant is assured for the whole season."
Armstrong said neonicotinoids are largely responsible for a 15 per cent increase in Ontario corn yields over the past 15 years, and so a ban on them could cause a significant loss. A loss of 10 per cent translates into about $100 an acre, he said. If Ontario farmers plant 2.3 million acres of corn as expected, that could amount to a $230-million loss.
"It works out to a significant economic setback for us."
2012 mass bee-deaths unprecedented
Mary Mitchell, director-general of the environmental assessment directorate with Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency, said neonicotinoid pesticides have been registered in Canada for 10 to 15 years and mass bee deaths linked to them had never been reported before last year.
"So we do think the weather may have been a factor," she said, noting that it had been an unusually early, warm dry spring.
She said regulators are working to prevent that happening again, but she did not mention any talk of restrictions on the use of the pesticides.
Instead, she said the government is encouraging farmers to communicate better with beekeepers and to using planting equipment that minimizes the production of dust, which is thought to be a major way bees are exposed to the pesticides.
The government is also working with the agricultural industry on ways to get the pesticide coating to stick better to the seed so it can't come off and harm the bees.
Tracy Baute, who leads the field crop entomology program at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, said more studies are underway to find out exactly how bees are exposed to neonicotinoid pesticides.
However, in the meantime, she recommends that farmers:
- Let nearby beekeepers know when they are planting so the beekeepers can move hives if necessary.
- Consider planting in the early morning or the evening, when bees are less active.
- Consider using seeds that aren't treated with pesticides in fields at a lower risk of attack by pests.
The reports of mass bee deaths in Ontario and Quebec in 2012 took place around the time that two scientific studies were published showing that bees can be harmed by even low levels of neonicotinoids.
Many bee species have been declining in North America and Europe, and some have even gone extinct or are believed to be close to extinction. Meanwhile, honeybees have been reported dying or disappearing en masse since 2006. In addition to pesticides, there is evidence that fungi, viruses, or parasites may play a role.