Yes, really. You're a troll. The fact that you don't recognize this in yourself does not make you less of a troll. Hopefully, being on slashdot is helpful in this regard, since other people can point it out to you.

You didn't "cite" anything. You pulled two theories out of your ass, one of which was wildly off-base, and going by that, why would I think your second theory had any merit, seeing as how you're an idiot?

That is a fair point. However, not knowing the difference while simultaneously trying to act like some kind of authority on whether or not the honeybee/bumblebee populations are in trouble, is surely a special kind of stupidity on the OP's part.

Well, judging by your level of education in this matter, as you don't know the difference between bumblebees (the subject of the article) and honeybees (the subject of your multiple anti-global-warming-crusade posts), I think we're done here.

Why should I edit your inaccurate original claim, when you've already confused honeybees with bumblebees?

Nice non sequitur. I was referring to your completely off-the-mark claim that pesticides were killing bees. Once I read that claim, it's hard to believe that there's any sort of logic or science behind your other claim.

To be blunt: it appears you might be just pulling stuff out of your ass.

Or not: "One clue to the importance of climate: Bumblebee ranges began shrinking 'even before the neonicotinoid pesticides came into play in the 1980s,' says ecologist and coauthor Alana Pindar, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph in Canada."

Please RTFA. Thank you.

Since the range migration started happening "even before the neonicotinoid pesticides came into play in the 1980s,” both of your theories seem to not be relevant to this particular article. Especially the wacky cellphone tower tinfoil hat guy.

Please at least try to RTFA next time.

Christ, it's like the 5th paragraph in: "One clue to the importance of climate: Bumblebee ranges began shrinking 'even before the neonicotinoid pesticides came into play in the 1980s,' says ecologist and coauthor Alana Pindar, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph in Canada."

I know, no one likes to RTFA. But if you did: "One clue to the importance of climate: Bumblebee ranges began shrinking “even before the neonicotinoid pesticides came into play in the 1980s,” says ecologist and coauthor Alana Pindar, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph in Canada."

If I'm reading your multitude of comments on this subject correctly, you're saying, "fuck the wild honeybees, private industry will just make more of them and truck them around more and everything will be okay. yay capitalism!"

Is that about right?

I don't think the word "most" means what you think it means.

No, people bold things because, in their own deluded evaluation of the brilliance of their comments, they think they're saying the most important part.

What you think is of little consequence, as Lincoln never said that pithy quote. http://www.greatamericanhistor...

The fact that they went to war over it.