And for the media-based fear mongers promulgating these myths there is one and only one cure for all these ills: a President with a "D" by his (or her!) name.
This one is not a myth. In our area, 70% of the worker bees are gone. No one has any idea what is happening to them, and it really is a serious problem. One local farmer has lost over 3/4 of his hives, and no one can come up with an explanation.