wiwithout bees, the allman procs does not exist. the ability to transportrt aroud the globe does not exist. the transport change from the be to the beekeeper to the trucker -- all of those points of our current food system come back to the bee. vanished? the bees growers would be confined to three crops. wheat, rice, and corn, crops that do not require bees for pollination. the impact on the economy and the consumer could be profound. --lines in the populations bee populations are not new. in the u.s., they have been slowly decreasing for some time. in the last 50 years, the amount of money produced has fallen by 50%. the epa says the prevailing theory is the decline of help in honeybees in general -- held in honeybees in general -- health in honey beans in n general, are the resusult of multiple stressors. >> in past six years, we have lost somewhere between 4.5000012 million colonies. and 12 million colonies. >> we saw something new, massive called colony collapsed disorder. >> it is a situation where you have a handful up bees le