The Honey Bee's Disappearing Act

Honey Bee colonies are disappearing all over the world, and scientist have not pinpointed a cause. Commercial Beekeepers are seeing their hives drop at alarming rates. The West Coast has reportedly lost sixty percent of its commercial bee population and an estimated seventy percent on the East Coast.

This should not be taken lightly, we need the bees to pollinate our crops. A Cornell University study has estimated that honeybees annually pollinate over fourteen billion dollars worth of seed and crops

(Mostly fruits, vegetables, and nuts) in the United States alone. That works out to one-third of the nation's food supply.

They have come up with a name for what is happening Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. This problem has been identified in 24 states all over the country.

In response, some farming expert from several universities and states have formed an emergency working group to study the disease. As of now, scientists only know two things for sure; The main symptom has been mass abandonment of hives, typically finding only a Queen and a few attendants left with no trace of the other bees. Not even their bodies. And, the variety of fungi, viruses and mites found in collapsing hives suggests a widespread failure of bee's immune systems.

There are many theories as to the underlying cause of CCD. Some speculate is could be a pesticide.

An increasingly popular class of pesticides called neonicotinoids that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified as highly toxic to honeybees could be the cause. The stress of moving the bees to pollinate crops could be affecting their immune systems. However, none of these alone should be causing the bees to die off at such a high rate.

A theory that has been kind of hush, hush is cell phones. Cell phones are constantly commutating with towers and satellites. Using electromagnetic waves (EMF).