are gm crops causing a decline in bumble bee numbers?

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as well as mobiles and virus and habitat loss and climate change

it WHAT WAY are gm crops affecting bees ?
 
I read that it was a virus that was killing the bee population - we should all be very afraid.
 
I don't think that GM is having an affect on bees, there's not enough of it. What is causing a problem is Verroa, a mite and parasite.

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/articles/varroa.html
 
I think its to do with the recent rather wet weather bouts we are having that are keeping them in the hives, and then as someone else has said there is also a nasty virus that is going around which is being particularly effective because they are not leaving the hives as much.
But hey, who knows the GM crops may not be helping.
 
Gawd, I hope not. I thought the current theory was that it's something to do with mobile masts interfering with their navigation system.
 
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