Yet another study points to pesticides as cause of bee death disorder

Wow, did you really just try to absolve yourself from providing evidence on the grounds that you disagree with the common view? That’s really not how things work outside the plasma cosmology threads.

I think at the very least you should give some reference for your statement that there is no bee decline at all. There are so many accounts of honeybee declines in so many places, it’s impossible to take that seriously without giving any back-up.

This matters, too, because while honeybees on the whole are not going extinct, not everything is pollinated by them and there are enough other bee species that have certainly been disappearing. From what I’ve read, habitat loss is a major factor, but insecticides might be just as important.

So indications they’ve been causing broad damage to any pollinator could mean a disaster for the others. I think it’s important enough to expect more evidence than just one apiarist’s say-so on whether that’s happening.

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