Belinda Bumble Bee: Where Have All the Bees Gone? A Whimsical Look at a Very Serious Matter.

Beginning in 2007, commercial bee keepers and hobbyists began to report catastrophic losses of honey bees:
According to the American Beekeeping Foundation, as many as 700,000 of the nation’s 2.4 million bee colonies have been affected by these losses. This is not just a problem in America; honey bee populations worldwide are in decline due to such factors as habitat destruction and pesticide damage. According to a 2011 United Nations report, of the 100 crop species that supply 90 percent of...