Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing. Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago.

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.

If the bees were dying of pesticide poisoning or freezing, their bodies would be expected to lie around the hive. And if they were absconding because of some threat -- which they have been known to do -- they wouldn't leave without the queen.

Since about one-third of the U.S. diet depends on pollination and most of that is performed by honeybees, this constitutes a serious problem, according to Jeff Pettis of the U.S. Agricultural Research Service.

I have read that some scientists believe this may be the result of cell phone use.

If our agricultural survival is based on stopping cell phone use then we are truly screwed! I can not imagine the teenagers of today giving up their cell phones to keep us supplied in honey and fruit. Now if the bees were somehow responsible for Red Bull or caffeinated sodas we might have a fighting chance.