> >Those black helicopters have not stopped circling my hives. > >Bill Truesdell >Bath, Maine > http://www.commoditytrader.com/agriculture/beans_bees_and_flares.php "“Since October 2006, 35 per cent or more of the United States' population of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) - billions of individual bees - simply flew from their hive homes and disappeared." and the possible explaination is......increased solar flare activity! ****************************************************** * Full guidelines for BEE-L posting are at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm * ******************************************************