I don't know if anyone else has been following the fate of the birds and the bees lately but there is something woefully wrong.

     Tens of thousands of birds have literally fallen dead out of the skies in Australia and Texas in recent months and bees are vanishing by the tens of millions, too.

     Here are some troubling parts of an article posted by CBS News.

     "(CBS) In spite of all the advances in agriculture, honeybees remain indispensable. By moving pollen from flower to flower, bees are the only efficient way for many crops to pollinate, CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports... 

     'Colonies are going down. The bees aren't dead in the box or aren't out front,' says Jerry Bromenshenk, a bee researcher at the University of Montana. 'They've just disappeared. Just vanished.'

     Bromenshenk is leading a team of bee researchers looking for a cause. He's even listening to hives for signs of distress. Beekeepers in 22 states have reported bees dying in huge numbers.

     Jeff Pettis of the U.S. Department of Agriculture says parasites and disease have killed bees in the past, but never anything like this."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stor...

     Could this be disease, pollution, or even terrorism?