US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause
US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause
US Department of Agriculture calls in university to help study decline as Trump administration staff cuts sting
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What happened to the hypothesis that it was glyphosate/roundup killing them?
I asked a beekeper friend and he said it's mostly Neonicotinoids and some new diseases.
I asked a entomology professor and he said neonicotinoids were not good for bees but not bad enough to explain anything
The general theory is that the neonicotinoids weaken the bees enough that they can't fight of the new disease.
Similar to how AIDS doesn't kill you but weakens you so that a cold becomes deadly.
There is no biological pathway. Despite what monsato haters want to make you believe