This article was written by Damian Carrington of the Guardian.
Before taking it too seriously please note that he is still getting mixed up between honeybees and bumblebees - not for the first time.
The coverage of bee issues in the UK press is dire.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/oct/22/bees-pesticides
'Creswell also criticised research published the journal Science in March, which showed that honeybees consuming one pesticide suffered an 85% loss in the number of queens their nests produced.'
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