When will we learn...

It seems the possible culprit has been found and guess what -- it isn't us.

The colony collapses are caused by the combination of Nosema ceranea microsporidian and RNA viruses. I haven't got a link to anything else than a Finnish paper, but as the source of the news was BBC (they were quoting some US researchers), I'd think the news can be found elsewhere, too.

So step off the blame train, please.

Alas I am unable to read Finnish but from internet research (as credible as that may be) suggests that the Finnish paper isn't univerally accepted and that combinative causes are still an issue, including human intervention (pesticides, forced migration, declining biodiversity of plants for their food sources in our hedgerows). Just because something else is involved doen't mean we shouldn't consider our impact on driving something towards a tipping point. If the blame train pulls up at your platform, don't rush off to the ticket desk to see if perhaps you can go somewhere else instead. If there's one thing you can learn from the Matrix, you can only dodge bullets for so long.

they are not the sole pollinator of most plants.

Accepted. Cow's aren't the only source of milk, but if they all started dying then I reckon there would be cause for concern about the future of ice-cream, if you catch my drift.