Why and where did the Bees go and how will this affect our food chain?

This is an interesting questiuon, and Shamus's answer is also interesting.


Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a major problem in the USA, and it may already be too late to do much about it. Most of the wild honeybees (not native to the USA) are now extinct, and the industries that depend on them for pollination (especially fruit trees and nut trees) now are dependent on apiarists to provide bees. No one really knows why, but it is suspected that some form of genetic failure to adapt, or inbreeding has had something to do with it. Maybe climate change, but I don't think anyone knows.





It's a little similar to why no one knows why frogs are disappearing around the world, or why butterflies are also reducing in numbers.





It is especially a problem, because it is now also occurring in Europe; where honey bees ARE native.


If honey bees disappeared in North America; it probably wouldn't affect the food chain much; but it would certainly affect fruit and nut growers (a billion dollar industry).Why and where did the Bees go and how will this affect our food chain?
Mobile phone signals and waves have resulted in Bees now not being able to navigate or communicate properly therefore meaning they stay in the hive or get lost.


Imagine they're on a certain channel - a frequency and the more phones we use, the more we clog up that channel, pushing their messages to the back.





This means they can't produce honey so that's the food gone from there and a lot of bees die from the confusion, hunger and from being lost. This means predators that eat bees have lost a part of their diet and so, it creates a small dent. Nothing major according to published reports but still a loss nonetheless...Why and where did the Bees go and how will this affect our food chain?
';Colony Collapse Disorder'; is the official name for what is happening, though it isn't very clear what causes it. It would seem that mites and fungal diseases have a part in it. I am guessing that the practice of trucking beehives around the country to pollinate crops in season is a factor in spreading it.


I am reassured by the fact that honeybee die-offs have happened before at least since 1886, and the bee population has always come back. Presumably the bees that survive are resistant, and pass this on to their offspring.
As others have said, no one is sure what is causing colony collapse disorder.





As far as impact goes, see the link for a list of plants pollinated by bees and you see it is a VERY serious concern.
early warm weather before spring brought them out and then the cold weather came back and killed them then at the real spring there's none or little left.