Stephen Henning expounded:

Scott Hildenbrand wrote:

Think about that statement for a minute.. If bees are not making it back
to the hive, do you really think they're surviving somewhere without a
food source?

Think about this a minute. They are out gathering food. Why should
they come back to a man made hive?

Because it's their home. And it's where the queen is. They don't
have minds of their own, they return to their hive (if they can).

Furthermore, the cause of CCD has not been pinpointed yet. It could be
any number of things. Sure, it could be chemicals but it could also be
viral, bacterial, or maybe even those odd suggestions such as cell phone
towers messing with their navigation.

They have identified chemicals that make the bees loose their sense of
direction and they have found these chemicals in the areas of the CCD.

That isn't the bottom line on the CCD issue. It's a suspect, but it
hasn't been definitively stated.

Now, having a traveling hive for hire to pollinate is swell, but those
bees that they are pollinating in place of aren't just wondering around
asking for directions.. I'd say they're toast.

Bees existed wild for many millenia before man made his first hive.
Keeping bees in hives is relatively new in their history. They will do
just as well as Canada Geese do when they don't fly south.

Stephen, that just isn't true. If they can't find their hive, they
die. They don't all go out enmass to the same place, together, stay
to together, and return together. Nevermind the fact that the queen
never leaves the hive - except when she's a virgin, on her mating
flight.
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