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/67nrdu
http://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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