You will note that possible causes mentioned in the article for this problem are

"...parasites, poor nutrition for the bees, viruses and drought conditions,", and even, "cell phones, cell phone towers and cordless phones,"

but nowhere is the most likely cause, pesticide poisoning, (what the European Union agricultural authorities are actually legislating against right now) even mentioned.

"It's like a perfect storm of reasons," said Kim Kalpan, a public affairs spokesperson for the research service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

"We've eliminated that it's one single cause. We're looking at several causes..."

But the possibility that some external, artificial agent which by itself might not be critical but which when synergistically combined with other, normally benign natural or artificial causes might be the killer, is not even brought up.

I cannot imagine an article about honeybees dying off, a huge environmental story with immediate and important economic consequences, wouldn't even speculate that perhaps pesticides might be playing a role. I wonder if the chemical industry advertises much on CNBC.

OTOH, I don't think we can blame this on global warming.