"If you were concerned after reading a sentence like “Populations of honeybees have crashed in recent years, and many researchers have pointed the blame at a class of widely used insecticides called neonicotinoids,” you are not alone.
That’s how an otherwise excellent article in The Scientist summarizing a recent USDA study on honeybees’ molecular responses to neonicotinoids began.
But you needn't be.
The narrative that honeybees, which are actually not even native to North America, Europe or Australia, face mortal danger and will take us down with them has been advanced by environmental groups for years and echoed in media, casual blogs and mainstream science sites.
...The only problem is that it isn’t true.
Myth of Honeybee decline
Honeybee populations haven’t “crashed” in the United States or elsewhere.
Honeybees are not going "extinct."
Crops are not "in trouble." ...
Honeybees are not going "extinct."
Crops are not "in trouble." ...
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