Jerry writes:
> the New Yorker Magazine

That should be the "New York" magazine.  "The New Yorker" has higher standards. Here's how they covered it:

THE ARMY’S HONEYBEE THEORY
Posted by Elizabeth Kolbert

> Nearly four years after a mysterious ailment (or toxin or stress) began killing off honeybees, the cause of colony-collapse disorder still has not been identified. Meanwhile, the disorder continues to ravage bee colonies: it’s estimated that the losses in 2010 were just as great as or even greater than they were in 2007, when the problem first made headlines around the world. (I wrote about it in The New Yorker.) Early research seemed to indicate that the culprit was a virus, known as Israeli acute paralytic virus, or I.A.P.V.; however, subsequent studies indicated that I.A.P.V. had been infecting colonies long before colony-collapse disorder set in. As the Times reports today, an unusual collaboration between U.S. Army researchers and scientists at the University of Montana has yielded a new theory. According to the team, the problem is a sort of double whammy—a co-infection by a virus, known as invertebrate iridescent virus type 6, and a fungus, Nosema ceranae. The team’s findings were published recently in the journal PLoS One.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/10/honeybees.html#ixzz11riYjW00

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