This
story is popping up all over, apparently due to the possible
correlation with cell phone use. It's funny that "four years left
before we all starve to death" doesn't get big headlines, but "cell
phones might cause bee colonies to collapse" does... The graduate optimization
class that my wife TAs at Stanford just finished their class
project. It was to write code to optimize food production given that
you need to allocate some land for natural bee colonies. Apparently a
lot of the commercial bee colonies get trucked around to do their jobs
from field to field, and bee colony collapse has been causing a lot of
problems with this system. Whatever the cause, decentralization of bee
production seems like a good idea.
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I have just written a brief article about ‘Colony Collapse Disorder’ which you might find of interest http://fishinsects.suite101.com/article.cfm/colony_collapse_disorder
the current flap points up our weakness as biologists who seem to believe honeybees are our only pollinators.
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