Where are the bees ?
22 July 2008
Posted in
Nature
What in blazes is going on with the world's bees? I keep reading all these
stories about how a significant percentage of the world's beehives are failing
and that all the bees are dying. No one seems to know why, but there are
explanations aplenty, ranging from global warming to mites to, of all things,
cell phones! What's worse, some of these stories quote Albert Einstein's
predictions that if the world's bees were ever to die off, owing to the lack of
pollinators, humanity would follow about four years later. Is there anything we
can do about this? If the bees all die, are there any substitute pollinators we
can use? Or is Einstein right and we're all doomed?
find part of the answer here...
