The bees are dying: one quarter of the US commercial colonies collapsed last year, and news accounts indicate that Europe has the same problem.
Initial speculation centered on cell phones—supposedly the radiation is at just the right frequency to disrupt the bees’ navigation. That hypothesis seems to have few adherents now. So what is it? Pesticides? Genetically modified crops? Climate change (or just the vicissitudes of weather)?
While the experts try to figure this out, try to find the busy bee in the strange flower:
You may need to look at the big version.
[C D B by way of William Steig]
