What's missing from the current discussion and work related to bees that is preventing us from making good progress?

摘要

For several years, now, it has been unbearably dreary and frustrating for me to listen to discussions between beekeepers, read the bee journals, and especially, go to bee meetings. All the conversations have revolved around killing mites, fear of notbeing able to kill mites, and constant calls for "someone" to do "something". Powerpoint presentations came into their own during this time, getting fancier with each passing month and giving at least the subliminal message to our nation of techno-dependent morons that, though the situation looks dire at the moment, things are actually well in hand and soon to be resolved.