I came across this article (via the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog) comparing rates of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) of bees raised organically with conventionally raised bees.
While it remains a complex issue, with little hard evidence, there continues to be a lot of reasons why we should suspect GM crops are playing a major role in CCD.
I think it’s a little interesting too that studies that might show CCD is caused by GM crops don’t seem to be getting any funding, and at the same time there are people saying we shouldn’t be so quick to blame GM crops because there’s no proof! It’s almost like someone or something out there is trying to keep us from finding out the truth…
Personally, I’m still waiting for someone to prove GM crops could not play a role in CCD.
I have just written a few articles about various aspects of the Honeybee crisis which you might find of interest – for example: http://insects.suite101.com/article.cfm/bee_crisis
Thanks for the hatt-tip. Like you, I’m hopeful that an answer — and a solution — to CCD will soon be found. And it may even be GM crops. But I don’t think it will be possible to prove a negative, which is why there is so little agreement on, for example, whether GM crops affect human health. It is so hard to prove that they don’t.