Where are the Bumblebees?

I talked to a beekeeper a few years ago when all the honeybees were disappearing. He said it was the strangest thing. He would be at a hive that was literally swarming with activity and loaded with honeycomb on a Thursday...and when he would come back the next week it was 100% empty! It was so cleaned out that the hive looked like it had been vacuumed!!

Today we find the headlines that tell us there is now an "alarming" decline in bumblebees.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2011 (Reuters) — Four previously abundant species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United States, researchers reported on Monday in a study confirming that the agriculturally important bees are being affected worldwide.

They documented a 96 percent decline in the numbers of the four species, and said their range had shrunk by as much as 87 percent. As with honeybees, a pathogen is partly involved, but the researchers also found evidence the bees are vulnerable to inbreeding caused by habitat loss.

"These are one of the most important pollinators of native plants," Sydney Cameron of the University of Illinois, Urbana, who led the study, said in a telephone interview.

See it here; http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre7023p7-us-bees-decline/

The Bible tells us that famine will wipe out huge amounts of people during the coming Tribulation.

No bees=no pollination=no food growth=famine=huge amounts of dead people.

Cling to Jesus people. The lead up to the Tribulation could be rocky, deceptive, volatile and confusing.