On 2013-04-07, ImStillMags > wrote:

> When Monsanto is faced with independent research that their actions
> might be killing the bees en masse, it simply buys the research firm
> that implicates them.

Bayer (yes, the aspirin company) makes a class of pesticides known as
neonicotinoids. These are also suspected of being at cause.

<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/04/09/mystery-of-the-disappearing-bees-solved/>
http://tinyurl.com/d4nlqel

Also, US commercial bee keepers are not without blame. So called
gypsy beekeepers, who ship their hives all over the US to pollinate
monoculture crops practice atrocious beekeeping methods. They feed
their bees HFCS instead of letting them eat their own honey and queens
are artificially inseminated jes like cattle. Bees, along with
amphibians, are the canary in the coal mine and they are currently
signaling "grave danger!"

nb