From benbrook@hillnet.com Thu Nov 11 19:52:30 1999 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:23:59 -0800 From: Charles Benbrook To: biotech_activists@iatp.org, sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu, PatrickMadden@compuserve.com Subject: Monarch Meeting Several viewpoints and press stories have now been circulated on the outcome of the November 2, 1999 Chicago meeting on new research on Monarchs and Bt corn. We have posted substantive meeting reports by Becky Goldburg of EDF, and Lincoln P. Brower and Myron P. Zalucki. For these, go to http://www.biotech-info.net/butterflies_btcorn.html Univ. of Illinois IPM specialists Kevin Steffey and Mike Gray offer their views on the Monarch meeting in a new posting on the Univ. of Illinois extension page, go to -- http://spectre.ag.uiuc.edu/cespubs/pest/articles/199924d.html We will continue to add reports and stories on this meeting and related developments shedding light on the impact of Bt pollen on non-target beneficials, of which the Monarch is only the most visible example, thus far. As research starts to show up in the literature, we will also post it or links to it. If anyone has any data on this subject that they would like posted, please contact me by private email. chuck Charles Benbrook CU FQPA site www.ecologic-ipm.com Benbrook Consulting Services Ag BioTech InfoNet www.biotech-info.net 5085 Upper Pack River Road IPM site www.pmac.net Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 208-263-5236 (Voice) 208-263-7342 (Fax) To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg". If you receive the digest format, use the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg-digest". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". All messages to sanet-mg are archived at: http://www.sare.org/san/htdocs/hypermail