> The Politics of Bees Turns Science on its Head 
> 
I have been following the discusion on neonics for about as long as you all have been discussing them.
It is hard to know what to do.  Are we in trouble with growing things without the use heavy duty pesticides?  
Are they harming the bees or not?  That is the interest on this site.
It is bigger than the bees.  It is bigger than a lot of things.  As a young man with his newly acquired 
automobile, I remember having to continually clean the windshield and the front of my car of all the 
bugs that accumulated and stuck there.  Today that is not the case.  I remember driving down the road 
at night and the bugs were numerous.  Now, not so many.  What happened to all the other bugs?
When I look at a tree in bloom and there is nectar and pollen to be had, there are more different types of 
insects than bees even though my hives are less than 20 yards away.  What about all the birds that eat bugs?
How are they doing?   Just as the bees are part of the environment, so are we.

Bill Bartlett

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