Just to add to Jon's comments on Brother Adam, we see today the huge exaggeration made about bee losses by some beekeepers and the media - CCD for example, and 'the bees are dying' in just about every newspaper in recent years. It is what people do, talk up the crises. Did Brother Adam make extensive sorties around Scotland and Ireland with an open mind, looking to see if all the bees had died? No, he will have been listening to Chinese whispers in a time when it wasn't possible to quiz people on the internet to see if it was really true.