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Monsanto Roundup anyone?

98 pesticides found in bee pollen! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9175290

and from Wikipedia:

Glyphosate can harm the bacterial ecology of soil and cause micronutrient deficiencies in plants.[63] Other studies found that while "recommended dosages of glyphosate did not affect growth rates", much higher dosages reduced respiration in nitrogen-fixing bacteria.[64][65]

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The timeframes don't line up very well for that to be true. The glyphosate (roundup) patent expired in 2000, but your article suggests colony collapse disorder wasn't visible until 2006. With ~30 years of widespread use by that point, with no noticeable effects on the bee population, why would it suddenly change?

Roundup, however, is an herbicide...

There are about 98 pesticides (of those 10 are herbicides) in bee pollen:

"The 98 pesticides and metabolites detected in mixtures up to 214 ppm in bee pollen alone represents a remarkably high level for toxicants in the brood and adult food of this primary pollinator. "

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

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