Anyone noticed that bees getting rare?

[moose1am]

I noticed the lack of honey bees about 10 years ago in the USA. As a kid I could go out into the yard and see hundreds of honey bees buzzing around the dandelion flowers. I read or heard about the bees disappearing due to a mite of some type. That's when I started to look at the yard and could not find the honey bees anymore. Then last year I noticed a few more bees in my yard. I wonder if the amount of pesticides we spray on our yards to kill the weeds is also killing the bees? Maybe it's the bee mites coming back. Maybe it's a combination of pesticides lowering the bees immunity and the mites that are prevalent that's make the bee population plummet

But I have not heard anything about the killer bee population dropping. It continues to progress northward last I heard. Killer bees can take over a regular bee hive rapidly and pretty soon the entire hive is made up of only killer bees.

Originally Posted by waste gate

Twenty years ago everyone was fretting over the so called 'killer bees'.
Another disaster diverted.