at this point CCD would appear to be mainly focused on human managed colonies that are moved 
around for pollination. unless you believe the upcoming media stories that should be coming out 
in the next month that stationary wintered over colonies that are dead in spring is somehow a 
mutation of CCD.  (point being the stationary beeks would have reported CCD prior to winter so 
any reports in the next 1.5 months is likely CCD me too disease, formerly known as winter kill)

 so I don't see a bogey man pathogen that randomly is wiping out pollinators - ask some of the 
commercial beeks and you get the same prerecorded message - Bayer is secretly killing our bees, 
bats and maybe even birds (but apparently not small hive beetles or mites). Or I guess you can 
just buy the checkmite strips from Bayer or coumophos in a jug and then there's no mystery at all 
who did what to their bees, but see its still Bayer at fault any way you slice and dice it.....get with 
the program and support our troops, drink the anti-Bayer kool-aid and be a patriotic American!

at any rate one of the great mysteries of the recent bee losses is how big is the problem and what 
were the symptoms at time of loss.  we have such poor historic records to go by no one seems to 
know if we're losing more bees then normal and how much of the current losses are real CCD. 

we have a crisis - we're just not sure yet how to define the crisis. maybe the crisis is that them 
darn bees don't want to do it our way anymore. they won't stay living on that contaminated comb 
and mono-diet of HFCS and almond nectar from Nov-Mar and racking up the frequent road miles 
awards.  we should get donald trump to fire them bees and replace them with Bayer genetically 
altered bees so we don't have to even mess around with pesky concepts like animal husbandry or 
beekeeping. 

these future genetically altered super bees could potentially fly through any cloud of Bayer toxins 
or live on combs and frames made from recycled checkmite strips or coumophos and tactic jugs.  
bees that are altered to actually thrive on Imid tainted nectar and pollen. but like the monsanto 
soy beans if you replicate these genetically modified bees you owe Bayer a royalty for every 
worker  or queen bee hatched out. science will solve our ills, most people are eating food 
byproducts at this point anyhow or meat from sick animals- a genetically altered bee would fit in 
better in the Industrial farm belt then those namby pamby natural bees that used to live with little 
human intervention. 

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