Link: Honey, I'm Gone - washingtonpost.com.
A third of our food supply – including much of the boredom-relieving stuff, from cranberries to cucumbers – is dependent on animal pollinators like the honeybee. As a result, this mystery is rapidly joining the all-star ranks of millennial end-time run-for-your-lives threats, right up there with Y2K, mad cow disease, West Nile virus, SARS and avian flu.
Of equal note is the way the bees are setting a new standard in human emotional resonance....
