Scientist blame mite infestation, agrochemical exposure to neomicotinoids. The Bee Informed Partnership study, a collaboration
between USDA, the University of Maryland and other research and beekeeper groups showed bee mortality during one year at 44%, the second higher ever and almost triple the normal rate seen until roughly a decade ago.
We depend upon pollinators for a large percentage of our food crops and bees polllinate about $15 BILLLION worth of food crops annually. Another pollinator also in steep decline are Monarch butterflies.