Well, I could recap this morning's ride conversations. Ahem... One of the guy's family is in the bee business, and he just finished writing a report on the widespread issue of bee colony death. Unlike my former hippie neighbor who believed it was all about cellular phones, the actual reason for so many bee colony die-outs is big agriculture practices, where large mono-crops create the perfect breeding ground for viruses for which the trucked in, genetically bred super bees have no immunity. Local hive colonies are the solution, as well as alternating the crops grown across a large area. Hard to do with tree borne fruit, but not impossible with some planning.