I'm a beekeeper and I cannot disagree more... about gassing, and about the recent disorders. I'm not old enough to talk about beekeeping in the '70s and '80s,

I'm a beekeeper and I cannot disagree more... about gassing, and about the recent disorders. I'm not old enough to talk about beekeeping in the '70s and '80s, but our losses are much more important now than 10-15 years ago. CCD is probably a combination of various pressures such as Varroa mites, pesticides, mono-culturing, destruction of natural resources, etc. But these days, one has to work (often hard) to get one's colonies survive... unlike before, when you could let them do their thing most of the time.