Health & Sanity area is buzzing about bees:
Similar bee deaths have happened in the past. In 1975, honeybees mysteriously died in 26 states, much like today.
Another big loss came about a decade before that
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Another:
Also on the Internet is a quote attributed to Albert Einstein on how humans would die off in four years if not for honeybees. It's wrong on two counts.
First, Einstein probably never said it, according to Alice Calaprice, author of "The Quotable Einstein" and five other books on the physicist.
"I've never come across it in anything Einstein has written," Calaprice said. "it could be that someone had made it up and put Einstein's name on it."
Second, it's incorrect scientifically, Pettis said. There would be food left for humans because some food is wind-pollinated.
Edited by Rogerdodger, 02 May 2007 - 05:26 PM.