"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."

Implied above is the idea that all of these thousands of beekeepers lost
their bees because they didn't treat them.  This comment is totally
undocumented and purely anecdotal.  Maybe they didn't like getting stung.
 Maybe they lost their bees by failing to leave enough honey stored in
their hives for winter feed.  Maybe they tried beekeeping and decided that
golf was a better way to spend their time.  Maybe they died from the same
reasons some of your chemically treated hives died last year.

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