What an excellent review of the so called data and study.  IMO your scientific and beekeeping 
knowledge and experience is invaluable to the List and makes you one of the "must read" posters 
here. 

Have you considered submitting that post as a letter to the editor at NYT's or elsewhere? considering 
the other outlets which also picked up that story it would be refreshing to see someone debunk that 
story. 

With global warming as a backdrop it appears the media and public are ripe for associating honey 
bee losses with impending doom and gloom. 

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