At area farmers markets I'm sure I will hear all season long about the declining populations and purported missing bees. 

This season my stock answer is the USDA website shows 2.684 million honeybee colonies in the USA in 2010 up from 2.634 million in 2000 and say there is no decline its all internet nonsense like Obama has no birth certificate and China owns all of the US debt. 

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