That's not a "surprise" at all.
A year ago, I pointed out how the claims of the
alternative pollinator crowd about the utility
of bumblebees and other so-called "alternative
pollinators" or "native pollinators" had directly
led to the extinction of at least two bumblebee
species in the US:
http://tinyurl.com/67nrduhttp://tinyurl.com/68kx9v
In brief, none of this would have happened if
not for the insistence that native bumblebees
were better-suited for US greenhouse pollination
than imported species. Native species were
exported, bred in Europe, where they picked
up a nasty European strain of Nosema, and
then imported into the US with the same
lack of port-of-entry sampling and inspections
that imported honey bees currently suffer.
There is no doubt that these bumblebees are
extinct due solely to the efforts of the
"native pollinator" lobby, who so skillfully
grabbed the overwhelming majority of the
CCD-justified funding as a whole, and
a significant slice of the research pie,
all while damning honey bees with faint praise.
Extinct is forever.
When will they kill again?
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