Where Did All The Bee's Go?

Question

40 to 90% of all the bee's in the U.S and all over the world have vanished from their hives since last fall. No ones is saying why, or where they went. Bee's play a very improtent role in Our Food, supplie. The bee's pollinate one third of our food! -without them... as a humen race we would be doomed as Albert Einstein speculated that "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left."

so where did they go? did they go underground? did they die? (if so where are the bodies?) or did they just change and disside to migerate and leave completely?

why? where?

Answer 1

I see bees all over the place.  We have these Jacaranda trees that are swarming with them.  There are always periodic diseases that hurt the populations but they adapt.  I frankly think it is not nearly as serious.  As for cell phone, I heard that theory too.  I don't think bees carry cell phones and they cannot detect radiation in that frequency so I don't think so.  As for high fructose corn syrup.  That is a new one.  It makes me sick, but it couldn't affect much of the bee population.  Hopefully it is just a minor blip in their population.  They are quick to rebound.

Answer 2

Quite a few articles have been written already about cell phone interference with bee behaviour.  Bees never return to a hive when the cell phone (turned on, of course) is placed nearby, and off they go looking for another spot.  Trouble is, with finicky weather, human and mechanical activity taking over meadows, etc., bees don't have all that much time to make a new habitation.  Then they die.  If we looked hard enough, we WOULD find their bodies, but they're something like cats and dogs in that they look for little cracks and niches to crawl into to die.  You are right about food supplies -- I myself have been wondering why there is not a huge alarm going up about lack of food in the near future -- for ALL of us.

Answer 3

Cheek implants and an eye lift will be all it would take to make you perfect. Meet me in my office at 1:00am hence the time of the procedure. Be on time.

Answer 4

Colony Collapse Disorder  Syndrome

The cause or causes of the syndrome are not yet well understood. Proposed causes include environmental change-related stresses, malnutrition, pathogens including Israel acute paralysis virus mites, pesticides such as neonicotinoids or imidacloprid, and genetically modified (GM) crops with pest control characteristics such as transgenic maize.

     Colony Collapse Disorder (or CCD) is a poorly understood phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or Western honey bee colony abruptly disappear.

     While such disappearance has a long-standing history of occurring, the term Colony Collapse Disorder was originally applied to perceived disappearances of Western honey bee colonies in a minority of regions of North America in late 2006.

Answer 5

I know they are important, but oh I secretely wish they would stay where they are hiding...I have bee phobia...and summer is not a happy time for me...but I do love honey couldn't live without it, so this makes me a little sad...

Answer 6

Even experts don't know. But they're trying to figure it out.

Answer 7

PERISHED!!

disease..sickness.. death!!

Answer 8

Bees, yes are necessary to spread pollen.  There are several theories as to their disappearing.

One) In area's of China, that have for generations, grown golden pears, their have not been bees for two decades.  It is due to the over use of pesticides, chemicals, and toxins.  A farmer, has to hand collect the pollen, and use a feather to spread the pollen to the blooms.  He said that twenty years ago, the bees did the work, in a matter of a few days.  Now he has to  hire crews, and they only do a few trees a piece, a day.  Then they cover each blossom with a brown bag to assure they don't lose the pollen.  It has driven the cost of operating his farm up by 300%.  And he used to make a profit

from the royal jelly the bees produced, no more.

Two) bees fly by magnetic navigation.  In areas where cell phone towers, wireless communication, air flights, and radio towers are now closer to gether, stronger signals, may cause the bees to become 'lost'.  And since they will not go into another hive, they literaly, fly themselves to death.

Thirdly) more aggressive species, like the African bees, have killed off some more civil species.  On Discover, they showed that a swarm of American honey bees, chased a man for about 100 feet, before they gave up and returned to their hive.  The same test with Africanized bees, chased the man for over 1000 feet!  Now, that is some busy bee!

Fourth) Tests in the Atlanta Disease Control Center, have shown that in cases of "Colony Collapse", where there is a massive number of bees dying off or not returning to the hive, there is a fungus responsible.  

Lastly)  When too few bees are in a hive, they can not survive the cold weather, so the remainder die off too.  See as the buzz or hover their wings, it keeps them warm.  Not being able to stay warm enough, they hover more, and eventually work them selves to death.

Answer 9

Between humans killing them and the severly cold weather in the winter, they are probably all dying. They are an important part of our environment. Why do you think the pollen count is so much higher than it used to be? I never had allergies when I was a kid but now I can hardly breathe in the spring.

Answer 10

Our own society in microcosm - look to the bees and behold the fate of humanity.

Answer 11

People who are afraid of getting stung, are wiping out bee hives.

Answer 12

yeah they are. they said its because of cell phones. cell phone signals are on the same frequency as the frequency bees use to both communicate and use for navigation.

Answer 13

There was a parasitic mite last year that killed as much of 70% of the colonies.

Answer 14

up your honeycomb...naw just playing, i don't know maybe pollution can kill them it is a possible answer