I have been hearing about how commerical bee people have lost a lot of
their hives. Many of these hives are transported for pollination. What
was I was wondering is if these dieoff affects "local native" bees
that are not part of commerical operations. I remember in my area a
number of years ago there was a problem with the death of large
numbers of bees, and I seemed to have fewer tomatoes, and it also
affected my neighbors.
Has anyone any thoughts about this?

Thanks

Tom