a couple of Jerry Bromenshenk snips followed> by my comments

I'll be curious as to whether they take into account urban sprawl, human population increase, changes in habitat or habitat management.  Looking at the US, for example, the human population growth over the last 200 years is somewhat mind-boggling.

Over 44 years since I came here - same habitats, same city, just a whole lot more city and a whole lot less habitats - whether native or agricultural.

>As the last sentence suggest it ain't just about urban sprawl but the expansion of agriculture to what is marginal soil profiles. I moved here about the same number of years ago that Jerry mention above and you would not now recognized this town.  If you reference picture of the same little village 50 years prior (when everything about was cleared of all trees and largely planted to upland cotton) you might feel like you had fallen into some foreign landscape. Recently my wife and I took a small trip across the north side of South Dakota and west of the Missouri River and what was 40 years ago untilled native pasture is now all planted to sunflowers.    

>imho habitat and radical change in habitat is one variable in honeybees health that is often overlooked.

Gene in Central Texas  

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