Weather.com - 3/01/13, Seth Borenstein
AP Photo/Johanna James-Heinz
The photo provided by an amateur Illinois bee spotter shows a rusty-patched bumblebee. It is one of four types of bumblebees researchers say is in trouble.
WASHINGTON – It's not just honey bees that are in trouble. The fuzzy American bumblebee seems to be disappearing in the Midwest.
Two new studies in Thursday's journal Science conclude that wild bees, like the American bumblebee, are increasingly important in pollinating flowers and crops that provide us with food. And, at least in the Midwest, they seem to be dwindling in an alarming manner, possibly from disease and parasites.
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Bees
Many reasons have been given for the bee collapse. Pesticides, electromagnetic pollution, pollution, earths changing magnetic field, chemtrails, haarp GMO crops and more; might be a combination of any. Humans might be next. We are being exposed to the same and our pollinators are disappearing.