Bee vanishing act baffles keepers

[bodach]

They've left America to go and live somewhere decent

 

[muckypup]

are they any closer to solving the mystery ? and how drastically would this affect agriculture ?

 

[quimcunx]

Strictly speaking it'd be 'bees and other pollinating insects'

As far as I know, no practical way of replacing them for agricultural purposes has ever been proposed. You can do small scale pollination with a fine paintbrush or similar, but that's going to be tough going if you're trying to do it for a few million hectares of crops.

My dad used to use a rabbit's foot.

Perhaps we could breed pollinating rabbits.

I'll go now, back to nobbing and sobbing.