Hi all
The November issue of the ABJ has an unsigned article which states in part:

The latest research on mites, and another avenue
to control them is welcomed. However, the recent research
and surveys and the current “Mite-A-thon”
obfuscates the real cause of the bee health crisis: their
toxic environment.

The focus on varroa mites, as the sole pest to honey
bees, detracts from a primary factor affecting the health
of honey bees: pesticides.

With honey bees the varroa mite is just the final straw
in the colonies’ health. “It is the mites because” of the
accumulation of pesticide residues on the bee forage, as
well as pesticide residues in and on water.

Pesticide exposure alters the varroa- to-bee-relationship
allowing varroa to overrun the hive. 

If it is just varroa mites impacting
the health of honey bees, what has caused the decline
in Monarch butterflies?

¶ ¶ ¶

This last sentence evidences the same sort of wooly thinking as:
"24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence?"

PLB

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