From the New York Times website:
More than a quarter of the country’s 2.4 million bee colonies have been lost — tens of billions of bees, according to an estimate from the Apiary Inspectors of America, a national group that tracks beekeeping. So far, no one can say what is causing the bees to become disoriented and fail to return to their hives.
As with any great mystery, a number of theories have been posed, and many seem to researchers to be more science fiction than science. People have blamed genetically modified crops, cellular phone towers and high-voltage transmission lines for the disappearances. Or was it a secret plot by Russia or Osama bin Laden to bring down American agriculture? Or, as some blogs have asserted, the rapture of the bees, in which God recalled them to heaven? Researchers have heard it all.
The rapture of the bees is just too cute! Maybe that's what's happening to all those extinct animals that environmentalists would have us believe are our fault! It's not oil, it's the Rapture, stupid! Bald Eagles? Rapture. Gorrillas? Rapture. Dodo? Rapture.
It all makes sense now! Phew. And here I was, worrying about my Eco-Footprint. Time to go rapture a cow for dinner.