I’ll confess, I skipped it, in favor of the TLDR of the Mojo article, which turned out to be an excellent example of bee reporting that is filled with hysteria
So, you didn’t read the study, but also didn’t fully read the article because it was too long.
But I guess all of that doesn’t matter if one has already positioned themselves as an advocate of the bees - Which surely must be a good thing!
With all of that incoherent bumbling, I could mistake you for the bees. But maybe you’re just for the birds.
I’m already famliar with Dr. Lu’s work
By not reading it?
CCD, if such a thing actually exists … I would go so far as to suggest that the greatest single cause of CCD is non-beekeepers who have googled their way into a facade of expertise, misinterpreted studies, and then make grandiose claims about CCD
Dr. Lu doesn’t actually understand what CCD is… he’s conflated it with garden variety hive loss.
Right, and crazy Dr. Lu thinks CCD actually exists. That’s very problematic right off the bat, obviously.
Um, the study didn’t conflate (imaginary?) CCD with garden variety hive loss. It says that sub-lethal exposure to neonicotinoids impaired the honey bees’ winterization before proceeding to colony collapse disorder.
Speaking of imaginary CCD…
Goddamnit: There Are Colony Collapse Disorder Deniers
his failed 2012 study, which also sucked pretty bad.
Yes, the Bayer insecticide corporation really hated that study as well.
It’s funny how everyone’s eager to weigh in on beekeeping issues, but no one is actually listening to beekeepers
Well, here’s an example of why actually reading things can lead to stronger stuff, like comprehension.
Chensheng Lu worked with beekeepers. That was within the article you didn’t fully read and within the study you didn’t read at all. In fact, it was within Xeni’s summary above you didn’t obviously read either while you were bumbling along.
I’ve seen enough of the article to know it’s probably …
More bumbling I hear… bumble… bumble…
I don’t need anyone to believe me.
That’s obviously a lie.
