The fact is that honeybees, which we need as a species to pollinate our crops, are disappearing. Colony Collapse Disorder, the scientists are calling it.
Two weeks ago the cause was apparently cell phones; scientists speculated that radiation given off by our handsets was mucking with the bees' internal navigation systems. (This could speedily be solved if the bees would just hire a snotty flight attendant telling us in no uncertain terms to shut our phones off.)
But this week, they're saying the culprit is actually a virus, not Verizon.
What murderous force is actually causing bee colonies to collapse? No one yet knows, though we here at Core have our own theories.
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Bees live only about a month and have very small and simple immune system and cannot recover from even small problems. They do not return home and die from starvation. We are not sure how they navigate least of all how to mess their navigation up.
These people do not look into all the possibilities. They are just working for the phone companies.