*I* was NOT speculating, I was repeating what I was told by a ***professional*** beekeeper, whom, I would venture to guess, knows a great deal more about how honeybees react to fertilizers and pesticides than *you* do. Get over yourself.
It is not what I know about bees that counts; what we have here is another rush to judgment based on popular conception rather than a systematic study of the scope and nature of the problem.
Emotion too often directs conclusion.