Thanks to DKS for pointing this out. Originally posted at greenchipstocks.
By Jimmy Mengel
The humble honey bee is getting its fair share of buzz this year — which doesn't bode particularly well for the species, or American agriculture as a whole.
The most recent revelations involve leaked government documents, regulatory malfeasance, and scientific censorship. To mix an insect metaphor, it's quite a tangled web...
Since 2006, serious decimation of the North American bee population has taken place. Termed “colony collapse disorder,” millions of worker bees have mysteriously disappeared from their colonies, largely confounding the scientific community.
Blame has volleyed from viruses to fungi to cell phone radiation...
But a suspect has emerged as enemy number one: Bayer's pesticide clothianidin.