Unsurprisingly, it seems the whole "disappearing bee" thing is mostly media hype. In a lot of ways this reminds me of the "crashing amphibian population" hysteria the media trots out when nothing else is happening in the world that day. I first read, and at the time deeply worried, about that in, oh, probably 1981. Twenty-six years later, the frogs are still jumpin'.

And the bees will, I'm sure, continue to buzz.