repeat after me: "soylent green is people"...

Salon interviews scientists looking into the disturbing Colony Collapse Disorder:

Last fall, the nation's beekeepers watched in horror as more than a quarter of their 2.4 million colonies collapsed, killing billions of nature's little fertilizers.

But as a Salon round table discussion with bee experts revealed, the mass exodus of bees to the great hive in the sky forebodes a bigger story.