New pesticides are 'killing honeybee population worldwide'

Everybody knows just how important the little honey bee is to overall food production; Immensely important.  In fact, without the honey bee, we would not have fruit crops, (apples, cherries, pears, peaches, plums, etc,).  That would of course increase the already worsening food crisis that the news media says we are now entering.  Might this be considered pestilence and another sign of the end times?

There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.  Luke 21:11 NIV

From the article:

Scientists are baffled by Britain's disappearing honeybees. Since the 1980s numbers have fallen by half.  The new study, led by Dr Jeffrey Pettis, one of the U.S.'s top bee experts, found that exposure to a class of pesticides called neo-nicotinoids makes bees more susceptible to infection - even at doses too low to be detected in the creature's bodies. Neo-nicotinoids, which were introduced in the 1990s, are applied to seeds and are found in low levels throughout a growing plant - including in its pollen and nectar.

New pesticides are 'killing honeybee population worldwide'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1348952/Call-ban-pesticides-linked-bee-deaths-worldwide.html