Letter: Pollen sting

Pollen sting

Sir: Can anyone please tell me how I get the message over to my bees that, when they visit the research plot of GM rape a mile away to collect nectar, they must not stop off on the way home at other rape fields and leave behind any of the pollen which they have inevitably picked up at the first stop.

The fertilised rape of the uncontrolled commercial crop would then have the modified genes from the research plot, and rape is notorious for spreading from the cultivated area into surrounding hedgerows and roadsides.

How can anyone claim that there can be adequate isolation of GM research under these circumstances?

GUY CHARTER

Ottery St Mary, Devon