[mxavier]

There's a 2009 Documentary called Vanishing of the Bees that covers this. It was quite alarming to see the impact it had on beekeepers in the US. If you have netflix, the doc is available for streaming and is well worth the watch.

[rdtsc]

I watched "Colony" also on Netflix which related the problem as well. But dramatized a bit too much by focusing on this one family.

Regardless, it was interesting to see how beekeepers were basically positioned against the legal team and the lobbyists of the chemical companies. The position of the chemical companies was basically to answer the problem with a question "Why would we knowingly damage agriculture in this country, we want agriculture to do well long term as well, right?". A very clever PR trick. They also said they conducted their experiments but found no positive results that links honeybee deaths to their insecticides (big surprise there).