There are a million unanswered questions. These bugs are so convoluted and interesting that every day when you get to the bee yard it's, “Can this be happening?” Then there are the subtle things that you don't see that are going on, and that's the area where we're going to need some substantive work.
Fortunately, the federal government and our provincial government in Alberta have come together, and we have a new national bee diagnostic lab with the Ag Canada farm at Beaverlodge. We see that as a real player as we move forward in terms of ability to get modern and new instrumentation in there that will be able to find these micro levels of things that might be in our hives.
Bees really are a canary in the mine shaft of the environment. It may be urban pollution, it may be auto pollution; we are putting significant chemicals in our hives as we try to kill a mite off a bee. There are many issues that need to be addressed.
My pet peeve is nutrition. There's a world of work to do there as well.