day to the next. I suspect it was the insect repellent I used. I don't normally use that stuff. That once I did, and the result was that my bees disappeared.

Bees also need the little flowers my wood sorrel produce in order to become very plentiful. And in the spring when my avocado trees blossom and my wood sorrel blooms, I have an unbelievable number of bees. They are everywhere it seems. I love them. They are small bees, not the normal honeybees.

I think this study is probably correct.

two insecticides and various fungicides.[8] As of 2014, about a third of US soybean acreage was planted with neonicotinoid treated seeds, usually imidacloprid or thiamethoxam.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid

As if we wanted to kill them off...

I have been so discouraged recently.

Even if the madness ended tomorrow, how would the environment heal?

When I dig down into the soil on my property,there is always fungal crap about five to six inches below the surface. Where is it coming from? Is it coming from something happening to the soil from pesticide used some four or five years back?

Is it the planes overhead that are continually up there, spraying god knows what, and which Scandinavian scientists claim is affecting the climate in a most negative way. (Their claim being that the geo engineering itself is responsible for 15% of the climate change overall each year.)

this is an area of the yard that has been well watered, so it is not a result of any drought.

I read this article earlier today. When I tried to research who the "experts" were or find the research backing up the "CCD is abating" claim, I couldn't find any information.

It sure would be nice to know that CCD isn't a concern anymore and we can all breathe a sigh of relief. If only there were references to the research and who these "experts" were who said that.

The bumblebee could be an important pollinator for cool weather crops. So far I've only seen a couple bumblebees, and they looked pretty gamey.

An individual bumble bee will pollinate a lot more flowers than an individual honey bee and they will continue to pollinate flowers even in cool and rainy weather. Honey bees are fair weather pollinators. But of course a colony of honey bees is so large that the colony can pollinate an enormous number of flowers. Truth is we need both honey bees and bumble bees and also other native bees. Biggest problem for both native bees and honey bees is habitat loss and loss of diversity of plants.

Till now it's been guesses and innuendo, but now we have something solid to use, and I'm totally on board with that. Regulated, banned, whatever it takes. We cannot allow the use of industrial farming technology to damage the environment. We don't allow that for any other industry unregulated and uncontrolled.

(in this case Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta, ad nauseum) to agree to further studies.