Where are the Bees?

Question

10's of billions of bee's are missing. They polinate 80% of the worlds plants. If Bee's die humans die. They make Honey and Wax and much more. Einstein said if bee's die plants die, animals die, then humans die. All within 4 years. He also said the world may come to an end in 2012 due to bee's. If we don't figure this out we die in 4 years. I'm only going to be 15!!! so find the bee's please because i want to live!

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Answer 1

2012? Wow...December 21 2012 is the day the Mayans predict the world will die....

Answer 2

It's called Colony Collapse Disorder.

Not much is really understood but you shouldn't have trouble finding out information.

Answer 3

I'm a little puzzled as to where Einstein is coming into the situation. Albert Einstein has been dead since 1955, and while I'm sure there are plenty of other Einsteins, usually people specify. Also, while I can believe he talked about bees at times, I don't think that was his primary area of expertise.

The bees are not so much "missing" as dead, so finding them won't help. I think someone has exaggerated the situation to you, though. For one thing, they're not *all* gone, nor does this appear likely -- even if you just mean the honeybees themselves as opposed to all other types of bees. For another, while bees are very important to agriculture and losing them is a serious difficulty, even if they went extinct it would not cause all plant life on earth to disappear, nor the world to end. It would, however, make food prices go up a lot and require a major overhaul of current agriculture.  

I'm a beekeeper. I do take this seriously, but I don't think you need to panic.