Originally Posted by Botnst

American bee breeders use royal jelly to mass-produce queens and drones so that they can selectively breed new generations more quickly. Most industrial-scale beekeepers re-queen their hives annually using the mass-produced queens.

If a generation of queens were produced that were weakened by pesticide they possibly wouldn't be able to lay sufficient eggs to maintain the hive.

It's all foil-hat theorizing at this point.

B