It will be fruit and vegetables that will be high priced. Gotta have those pollinators. When the mites, Varroa and the tracheal first came out, I participated in a study to see if there were native bees that would do the job. Answer: not enough of them. The honeybee as we know it is a European import. It came with the crops that needed the pollination; apples, cucumbers, almonds etc etc. Strawberries, a North American plant, will benefit from the added help. We have imported too much honey from places like China where this disorder probably came from. Your FRreeping Entomologist, Battle Axe
I understand it's also a problem in Spain and Poland, but not England, France, Italy, Germany for the most part. Is it just the U.S. and parts of Europe? How about the African Honey Bee hives?
There's also speculation about the effect of systemic insecticides and such.Any clues?