"A key point that is frequently left out of these discussions is: all
the thousands
of folks out there who went "no treatment", lost the bees, and gave up.
They don't write, they don't call, they just fall off the map."

Another possibility as to why they fell off the map: they discovered that
the bees they kept, in the place where they kept them, required them to
dispense insecticides inside their hives.  And rather than deal with
handling and dispensing insecticides, they decided to quit beekeeping and
do something else.

Another thought about the timing of the use of insecticides in your hives:
the instructions invariably say dispense AFTER a nectar flow not during or
before.  But let's not forget that AFTER the last one is always BEFORE the
next one.

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