The disappearance of  the honeybee population continues to BEE a problem and no real solution is immediate in addressing the problem.  According to Discovery.com, there may be more than one reason the bees keep dying,

We obviously think it’s more complicated than we first believed as in we don’t believe that we’re looking for a single virulent pathogen, although that can’t totally be ruled out. At first we were thinking that we’d find a single causative agent, a virulent pathogen sweeping through the bee population, and that doesn’t appear to be the case.

If these kinds of bees are of the honey nature, the population seems alive and well in spring tree,

When I heard a peculiar buzzing noise the other day, I looked up and saw there were hundreds in the tree.  I left quickly because 1) I’m a chicken, and 2) I was scared.  But the bee in my pink tree photo looks a lot like the honeybee in the article.

What do you think?