The BBC produced a very high quality documentary about a year ago - called 'Who Killed the Honeybee'. It contains extensive interviews with beekeeper Tom Theobald in Colorado, Bret Adee, America's largest commercial beekeeper, with 10,000 dead hives in Lost Hills California, Dave Hackenberg in Florida and Pennsylvania. It also has extensive coverage of the California Almonds disaster. There are excellent interviews with: Bee Scientists Marla Spivak at Minnesota University; Maryann Frazier at Penn State; Jeffrey Pettis at USDA lab in Maryland; Dennis Van Engelsdorp at Penn State. The rest of the film deals with England and Europe. The film covers the big issues: varroa, pesticides, viruses . .even 'climate change' (the British Bee Lab's favourite suspect) - but the weight of evidence overwhelmingly implicates systemic neonicotinoid pesticides. Loss of habitat, chemical cocktails, viruses and varroa all contribute. but it is the global use of systemics that carries the day if you read between the lines. The BBC, as always, tries to give a 'balanced view'.
Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFDfHKJfjxQ
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv-2NImtmhU
Part III: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H36CeFZCBYk
Part IV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g7WKHSrp6M
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