More buzz kill

Taiwan is having it share of problems with bee populations that are dying off. The story from Reuters reports:

Over the past two months, farmers in three parts of Taiwan have reported most of their bees gone, the Chinese-language United Daily News reported. Taiwan's TVBS television station said about 10 million bees had vanished in Taiwan.
A beekeeper on Taiwan's northeastern coast reported 6 million insects missing "for no reason", and one in the south said 80 of his 200 bee boxes had been emptied, the paper said.


TK: A mass phenomenon over the millions of missing bees.. Disease, pesticides, cell phones - nothing has been ruled out as a possible cause. I would like to get an assessment from scientists about what tangible effects this bee shortage is having, and we may to wait for several months for that.