[ShlomoS]

1. Yet the industry still refuses to stop forcing honeybees to have abnormally long and large growth, which is the main factor in death by varroa.

2. Not really. None of the temperatures we're recording anywhere around the country are special. We've had extreme variations in seasonal temperatures forever.

3. Commercial bees aren't africanized.

4. And just like with #1, the industry refuses to make any changes to accomodate the fact that bees are bees. They want to continue to treat them as machinery and then complain that they keep "mysteriously" dying.

5. I have to be fair to the beekeeping industry here in that they really have no say in this. Industrial agriculture is a disaster.