As far as publicity is concerned, perhaps you missed the 60 Minutes exposee. It was also publicized in several other magazines.

Even though you have bees, don't feel too smug -- they might be bumble bees or wasps. Pretty, but not as useful to the food supply. Not as helpful to getting apples or other fruits.

As far as the price of honey is concerned, it's important, but please remember that beekeepers actually earn their living from renting out their bees to pollinate crops. Farmers pay to have a large bee hive set up shop in their fields. Bee keepers travel in trucks with their hives to accomodate this demand. No bees, no food. Definitely no resonably priced food.

The honey is essentially a by-product. Few bee keepers could survive on that. Just the organic honey folks.

Bottom line? Try not to use systemic insecticides, try to plant a large variety of plants, and try to find a bee keeper who can take wayward nests and queens.

You don't know about it because we are so occupied by fighting with and hating our fellow humans with whom we share this earth. Our planet is in some very serious and deep "doo" right now my man and human beings are so wrapped up in their own petty little pissing matches that we are slipping into extinction by our own hand.
That's why.

John,
Many news reprts has been done on the plight of the honeybee. Sorry you've missed them. However on the web site for the WV Beekeepers Association click on the link for news from the media. I try to keep it up to date but got many irons in the fire these days. www.wvbeekeepers.org

We have no bees at our farm. We also have fewer and fewer flowers. When we bought our farm nine years ago we had many bees. Now I haven't seen a single honey bee for two years.

It is real. I use to and again use to be a beekeeper. But I kept on losing hives. I just got feed up.

There's a huge difference between a wasp and a honey bee!

Patsy - all that buzzes isn't a bee. Wasps don't make honey, and many bee-like critters don't pollinate crops. Honey bees are not native to America. They come from Eurasia. Our native American bees and bugs will do a fine job in pollinating the native plants tha make up the woods and fields of North America, just as they did long before Europeans brought the honeybee. What they won't do is be content to be carried around in boxes on an industrial scale to pollinate the crops we grow on an industrial scale. We aren't talking about bees in your yard. We are talking about a domesticated animal whose well being i vital for commercial agriculture as we know it.
Like to eat? Thank a bee.

You really need to look into this. It is not a ploy to raise honey prices. Who cares if they raise honey prices? We don't need honey. We do need food and without bees, we're screwed.

I tried to look it up and soon found out that you can't find what was never said, so, you tell me where you actually read it and I will try to find the same reference. Personally I ma tired of hearing it, because everyone seems to recall him saying it, but no one knows where.

Here are two links to Albert Einstein's quote (and article) about honey bees:

http://www.heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.7.BEES.htm

http://www.earthlydelightscapecod.com/bees.html

He didn't really say that...it's from that movie that just came out "The Happening". There is a quote in it that says that about the bees and four years until the end of man and it's attributed to Einstein, but he never really said it, it's just fiction. It's part of the movie and he never really said it, but it does look bad for us if they do dissapear. Anyway he was all into theory of relaivity and science things, not philosophical matters like that...yeh he was a genius and all but....

BobbyPeru and the rest use your brains global warming has been here before and after the ice age global warming is responsible for most living creaters since the ice age its a part of mother nature we have tried to change and control mother nature since peoples greed found they can profit from it and most studies are swayd to the direction for the highest profit to be made by the people with the most greed The oldest book we have warns us of greed