I hate to admit so much ignorance, but wonder if the advance of the fire ants could possibly be related to the demise of the bees. I moved south to Alabama 9 years ago and have noted the fire ants problem, whereby they are in my yard, in my plantings, and I have seen them in the trees, but not sure whether they might infiltrate a bee hive. They are nasty little devils; a tiny bite can result in an itchy, sore, raised area for days. Would they be able to drive bees crazy with itching like they do a grown adult human like me?

If cell phones are contributing to the death of bees, what about satellite TV and all those other objects flying in our universe and blipping all over the place.

damnn.....were all gonna die without the bees!!!!!! im scared : / we need to do something about this!!

I had a bumblebee hanging around my home for a couple of days. At one point, it came into our house as we were exchanging the window for a screen on our front door. My wife caught it and released it back outside. Now I found it dead between the door stop and the door. Most people will think a case study of one bumblebee's uncharactoristic behavior is unrepresentative, but this is weird. Normally, I never see bumblebees, but if I do, they are going from flower to flower, busy. This one wasn't doing that, and seemed to have no mission.

By the way, I would label Colony Collapse Disorder as "bee Alzheimer's." Most likely the reason the honeycomb of hives struck by CCD is avoided by other preditors, is the small remaining number of bees tending the hive work themselves to death, suppressing their immune system, causing all sorts of virus, fungus, and toxins to overwhelm them and get all over the inside of the hive. Normally, such sick bees are ejected from the hive by healthy bees, but there is a labor shortage.

"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." –Albert Einstein

will the world come to the end if all the bees die but we will only have 4 more years left to live? some one told me that

"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." –Albert Einstein

SORRY, BUT MANY HAVE POURED OVER STATEMENTS MADE BY ALBERT EINSTEIN AND ... THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF THAT HE EVER MADE SUCH STATEMENT.

I think this is really something to be concerned about...This is just the tip of the iceberg..what about the high cancer rates? I'm sure THAT has something to do with all these air waves, frequencies or whatever going around our earth..Things that we don't see associated to cell phones, satellite dishes etc...We are all killing ourselves very slowly..there is going to be havoc in a not too distant generation and hopefully, i'll be long gone..We have no say, no control, nothing..all we can do is voice our concerns..

EMF radiation is now being linked to brain tumors from cell phones; autism (which has increased in incidence ten fold since the introduction of cell phones); and other disorders. For more info look on www.mybiopro.com/marlee. This company provides the only product recognized by the safe wireless initiative for protection from cell phone radiation as well as other products to protect people from EMF pollution. This is a new multi-layer marketing company with direct sales through the sales associates web sites.

It [un] sounds like the bee's frequencies are being distorted by man's creation of frequencies that eventually will kill life as we know it. If only these frequencies could be "seen", from TV towers, cellphone towers, GPS, et al], I think there would be a cloudy hazy blinding us, but our vision is not that acute, neither is our hearing. But the bees' ARE, and that's so sad when U think we're just discovering that bee venom can be used as a cure for cancer, and we're killing that??? Man is man's best friend and man is life's worst enemy, and the latter is the strongest force of the two. Why are we having children still?? Will there come to be a force that kills all instinct in mankind too? We are a confused mess, much like the Tower of Babel people, [in the big pic] and as I babble away, I'm going to send yet an other invisible set of destructive frequencies that will confuse at least one bee.

What most people don't realize is the majority of bees in the world (that do most of natures pollination service) are not honeybees. In the U.S. the European honeybee has been recruited for centuries because of thier honey and how easy they are to transport. Most bees are not social in a hive, but solitary. With these bees every female is her own queen... no doting tribe of workers. These little known pollinators (the ones native to north america) could hold the key to our continued pollination service. Unfortunately they are difficult to "raise" so natural spaces are needed for them to thrive "wild". The practice of coorperate agriculture and monocropping has left little space for native pollinators to do thier work.
For more information search "osmia" or "solitary bees".

you guys are all nuts. We are living longer now than ever. We have too much honey and to many bees. Stop this the scaring tactics to scare our children into believing this bull. Your all nuts!! I canot believe you all spend time on this shit. Get a life!! Now stop the bull and get on with your life. the same people complaining probably all drive cars or polute and dont give a shit. again ''get a life'' and get off the welfare