Perusing popular response to Neonic reporting, I came across the following media commentary tying neonics to CCD:


"They researchers discovered bees that had been dosed with thiamethoxam 
(another popular neonicotinoid) were more than twice as likely as 
untreated bees to die while away from the hive, due to what they 
describe as "homing failure." In other words, the thiamethoxam seems to 
impede the bees' navigational abilities. Computer simulations later 
suggested that these wayward bees were getting lost often enough to 
cause hive populations to crash."
Whatever one's position, such commentary makes for a wonderful Rorschach test, facilitating many possible interpretations as per the reader's POV.


Daniel Swan in Calgary.

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