Solutions to the bee crisis

A few years ago,
there was a "bee mite" infestation, which killed off many hives,but
the bee populations were starting to come back until this latest
"collapse".

New research on GMOs is finding adverse effects on the immune systems
of bees AND humans, and anything else that eats or comes into contact
with them. The bees have been abandoning their hives with young still
in the honeycombs, in the larval and pupae states. "It's like they
have AIDS and are going off to die", one Pasco County beekeeper
recently reported to the St. Pete Times.

Beekeepers across the nation are bending together and consulting with
scientists to find the causes and long-term solutions.
Here's a short-term solution- take your surviving hives and "split"
them. A bee larve becomes either a queen or a worker depending on what
it is fed while in the larval state. Beekeepers are feeding royal
jelly to larval bees in order to produce more queens and re-stock
their hives. Some of these hives will be transported to the northern
states to pollinate the fruit trees.

I know that my wife has been having some strange allergic reactions
lately to foods which she has eaten for 50 years without any problem.
She has eliminated many things she had enjoyed from her diet and the
rashes and hives have gone away.

As far as pollination, farmers may have to pick up the slack and
utilize hand-pollination of their crops until the bee population
rebounds back. Short-term solution, yes. Time-consuming, yes, but 1/3
of the food crop is at stake. Our ancestors found ways to solve their
problems, and did what they had to do to survive. We will too.