They compassed me about like bees;
Psalm 118:12
"Over the past seven years, a stunning one-third of the U.S. honeybee population has disappeared without a trace – a mystery that’s baffling beekeepers and scientists, and raising concerns about the impact on the American food supply.U.S. Department of Agriculture bee researcher Jeff Pettis, who is leading the government’s search for answers, said there’s a lot more at stake in the disappearance of honeybees than just honey.
“If you walk into your grocery store, you might see about only one-third of the produce left in the produce aisle,” Pettis said, explaining what a world without bees would look like. “Apples and nuts and many of the fruits and vegetables would simply not be available if we didn't have bees or something to pollinate.”
In an interview with “Power Players” at the USDA’s bee research laboratory outside Washington, D.C., Pettis explained that in colony collapse disorder,” the scientific name for the sustained loss of honeybees in recent years, the worker bees leave their hives and never return.
So where do the bees go? Pettis said ............“The truth is we don't know exactly where they go,” ...
Despite years of research on mass bee disappearance, Pettis said scientists hadn’t found a “smoking gun” to explain why.
“We're looking at a whole host of things,” he said. “Nutrition, pesticide exposure, and then things like viruses and bacteria infection, so we're looking at combinations of things.” CNN
Could the future 'Beepocalypse' contribute in some way to the time of trouble by causing a collapse in the world food supply? Who knows....CHILL, I'm NOT saying I think that it will.... just a thought among many possibilities out there about the time of trouble.... Don't take this one thing too serious by itself....
