Many references in extension and other pesticide recommendations state or imply that the label directions for bees are optional rather than mandatory. And of course, the applicator's criteria are not always concerned with bees. Even worse, recommendations frequently advise applicators to notify beekeepers, with the statement or implication that the applicator no longer has to concern himself with the label. States that officially do this are violating federal law, by instituting less strict pesticide laws than the Federal ones. Any government agency that officially allows this evasion of label directions, is seizing beekeeper assets without compensation, a violation of the Bill of Rights.
Enforcement is uneven to nonexistent in various states.
Even more rare is compensation for damages done to beekeepers. In cases of bee kills, samples need to be taken in a matter of hours, and it may be several days before an investigator will come. The investigator is often not knowledgeable about bees, and is terrified of them. Investigative blunders may also be deliberate. Beekeepers have become cynical.