What do you think of this quote from Einstein?

I don’t know about the time frame, but I take his point. He was a pretty smart fella.

I’m old enough to clearly remember the day he died.

Cornell University of Ag and Life Sciences say the same thing.

I have a slightly different (uneducated) take. If the bee started to disappear significantly mankind would come up with another method to pollinate the flowers. Every fruit orchard would have a crew of laborers with paint brushes flicking flowers. Or, engineers would develop mini-pollination drones that motored around depositing their sperm loads on the waiting pistils. I’d apply for that research grant.

I think we’re safe.

And the price of the fruits would sky rocket.

I think we should make colony collapse disorder a priority.

Nowt wrong with bees, fucking wasps can go extinct tomorrow.

Nature abhors a vacuum. With all the bees (honey and bumble bees) suddenly gone other insects (flies, moths, butterflies, beetles etc) would move in and take over this nutrient rich pollination activity. In the mean time humans may very well experience mass starvation. Humans will not completely die out as we will still have crops such as grains, corn and potatoes that are reliant on bees so farmers will quickly grow much more of those crops.

We in the first world might muddle through as @LuckyGuy suggests. But the others?

Not verified that it was said by Einstein.

But the science is accurate. And @gondwanalon does posit a long term solution. But in the long term, we are all dead. Evolution doesn’t react that quickly.

Thanks @zenvelo. From one fact checker to another. I should have stopped to think…“Why would Einstien even be concerned about bees in his time?”

These guys think they have the solution to the colony collapse problem.