OK, I’m sorry for that, but the story is interesting.
Billions of bees have done just that, leaving the crop fields they are supposed to pollinate, and scientists are mystified about why.
The phenomenon was first noticed late last year in the United States, where honeybees are used to pollinate US$15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and other crops annually. Disappearing bees also have been reported in Europe and Brazil.
Commercial beekeepers would set their bees near a crop field as usual and come back in two or three weeks to find the hives bereft of foraging worker bees, with only the queen and the immature insects remaining. Whatever worker bees survived were often too weak to perform their tasks.
Latest research is pointing the finger at cell phones.
Bill Maher quipped that it if this theory holds up, it will make for an interesting conondrum - will we give up our cell phones to save our food supply? Or will we starve, talking on our phones, hoping that we science solves the problem?