Linked in what what?
Come to find out the die-off wasn’t as pronounced as it was at first thought, and this sort of thing has taken place regularly before.
Here we go with another idiotic “cause” when there was no harm no foul.
I just figured that Obama’s EPA was refusing to ban the insecticides so that we’d have less food, due to bee die-offs. That’ll teach me to wear the tinfoil.
Bees HAVE been getting scarcer for about the last 20 years. What is the cause of this is unknown. My favorite theory is “genetic entropy” aggravated by the apiarist’s bee handling practices that limit genetic diversity of the bee population.
I feel that the nebulous list of causes discovered for CCD reflects a general decline in the genetic “fitness” of bees. The extinction of bees may be inevitable eventually but beekeepers themselves are probably accelerating that trend.
Genetic entropy is a real phenomenon and must cause the extinction of every living thing eventually. See Dr. John Sanford’s (inventor of the gene gun) work called “Genetic Entropy”