Why are all of you commenting out of complete ignorance and near absolute lack of domain knowledge?
If that's a serious question, because we're pattern-matching this issue with other ones we're emotionally invested in -- archetypical issues of technological progress and ecology. Pre-existing cached narratives.
When the top comment is from someone whose source of information is "his step dad, beekeeper", pointing out the problem as "the pesticides" (although which ones, amongst a broad array of substances, are not specified. All of them?), I'd say it's a very serious question.
If that's a serious question, because we're pattern-matching this issue with other ones we're emotionally invested in -- archetypical issues of technological progress and ecology. Pre-existing cached narratives.