Evo-Event #5

Watching the news today, i heard something about a major mystery involving the honey bee. Apparently, the honey bee has been rapidly declining in the past decades and nobody has any idea why. So i googled the honeybee and of course one of the first things that came up on google was an article titled "End of the Honeybee".

Reaction: Much like the Japan earthquake i wrote about in my last eco event, this article brings the whole 2012 doomsday to mind. Although the article does give reasons for bee decline, it doesnt completly add up. 30-70% of all bees in the United States have been reported to have dissapeared in the last decade, which is a statistic that simply scares me. Also, one of the reasons the article gives for bee decline, is actually decline of wild flowers. But how is this fact suppose to make me feel any better about the last one! I truly cannot believe something like this is happening and of course it happens in the year 2011, right before the much talked about 2012 doomsday.

I am going to pursue this topic a little more and try and find out more about why the worlds bee's are suddenly dying. Questions remain; where is the worlds honey going to come from? If wildflowers are dying could this lead to something much worse?