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News has emerged of the latest threat to nature: drug-addled bees, hopped up on crack by crazed scientists... read the full story here Of course it does beg the question - Why?

My theory would be the smallest were too small to survive the winter unaided and the largest starved as the queen started laying in spring when there was little forage for them and very little stores left after the winter.

My beekeeping tutor is now one of the editorial staff at Beecraft can't get the link to work though

A spider is a webcrawler, an automated visitor usually reading the contents of webpages and logging them for one of the major search engines. See here for the Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

here's a link to the story i think you're referring too http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicgardening/herbicide_damage.php at the bottom there are links to newspaper reports of the incidents

personally I believe that it is probably fiction snopes [those wonderful debunkers of urban myths] currently have it as undetermined and like you can find no reference predating 1994 http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp

I do... :xmas-smiley-010::xmas-smiley-010::xmas-smiley-010::xmas-smiley-010: snowed all day yesterday and looks like more for today

ivy :puke: has a heavy taste, slightly musty YUK

LOL he's a talented dog.

we have a weimaraner called Troy - he's the one in my avatar

Hi I'm an English Beek exiled in Sweden, got recruited by Frisbee from the Poultrykeeper Forum I've been avoiding the BBKA forum for quite a while now