Colony Collapse Disorder

[Occhidiangela]

I am so sorry for being rude.

Then act as though you were.

On topic, the honey bee issue has been in the news for nearly a decade. The first thing I saw remotely approaching an explanation I read in a copy of Atlantic a couple of summers ago.

As you noted, it was mites/parasites, and the beekeepers all over the nation were busting their humps trying to get scientists to help them figure it out. For a few years, the speculation I read related to killer bees coming up from South America (where they had been transplanted from Africa) but that does not seem to have paid off as a guess.

Given the fate of the American Chestnut tree, I'm not convinced the beekeepres will win out in the end.

I am, however, hopeful that my guess is dead wrong. In the meantime, enjoy the honey on your biscuits, it may not last beyond the next decade. Without bees, no honey.

Occhi