It's one of those memes of global catastrophe that everyone seems to have heard of. The poor bees are all dying. At last we have some common sense on the subject in the New Scientist magazine. The short version: bees have declined in some regions, but have significantly increased in others, and anyway, even if bees went extinct it wouldn't cause a global meltdown of agriculture. It's time to stop worrying and learn to love the bomb. Or something.