Our estimable reporter writes: 

> Up to half of the 2.5 million colonies in the United States have died off. 

> Many scientists now say the chief suspect is the most commonly used
insecticide on the planet: Imidacloprid. 

Somehow they never seem compelled to state *where they got these numbers* or
who the "many scientists" are.

pb

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