The phenomenon was first noticed late last year in the United States, where honeybees are used to pollinate $15 billion (7.5 billion pounds) worth of fruits, nuts and other crops annually. Disappearing bees also have been reported in Europe and Brazil.
Commercial beekeepers would set their bees near a crop field as usual and come back in two or three weeks to find the hives bereft of foraging worker bees, with only the queen and the immature insects remaining. Whatever worker bees survived were often too weak to perform their tasks.
I’ve seen a few articles about this. Some also claim mobile phone masts are to blame (the radiation confuses the bees apparently) but I’m not so sure..
Mobile phone masts have been about for a wee while now and this scale of problem is, relatively speaking, new….Its has happened before historically so it must be something else.
In the US they are moving these hives to crops ready for pollination so its not likely to be the case in this instance…might be true for static hives though
heres a supposed quote from Einstein, tho some sources say he didnt really say it.
“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
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