> Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it. 

> "If you haven't heard of DD, what else fits the situation except pesticides?" Certainly with both pesticide-related and DD-caused bee losses, the adult population of a colony may be reduced rapidly to a "handful" of bees or, in some cases, the entire population may be lost. 

> Not sure your point?

The point: everyone was ready to blame pesticides back then, as now. Also, then as now, it was never solved. Disappearing disease ... disappeared.

PLB

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