Borderbeeman posted that cartoon a couple of years ago. Old hat. You must really worship the bloke even though he walks like a duck.

What is your explanation for the huge increase in UK colony numbers in the past few years?
I presume you do not attribute the success to the increased use of neonicotinoid pesticides during this time although you do have serious issue re. cause and effect so anything is possible. Iphone sales have increased year on year in the same period so maybe we owe the success of UK honeybees to Steve Jobs (RIP) Or perhaps it is Facebook.

Lets start the campaign now. Ban the neonics. Death to Bayer and Syngenta. Three cheers for Carbamates, organophosphates, and pyrethroid pesticides. Bees just love that good ol' fashioned cocktail sprayed all around them like in the good old days. Party like it's 1975 all over again.

Be careful what you wish for. There is some very wooly thinking in the ban the neonic campaigns and you get some really dangerous crap back again. Dangerous to mammals as well.