These people think you're stupid: Warm spring weather is allegedly bad for bees

A dangerous sting for agriculture: climate change implicated in bee decline | Indymedia Australia

"Bee numbers may have declined at our research site, but we suspect that a climate-driven mismatch between the times when flowers open and when bees emerge from hibernation is a more important factor," said James Thomson, a scientist with University of Toronto's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

The 17 year examination of the wild lily in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado is one of the longest-term studies of pollination ever done. The study was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences in September 2010.
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May Berenbaum, an ecologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and lead author of a National Academy of Sciences published report in 2007 that highlighted the precarious status of pollinators in North America said "To borrow an old analogy that Paul Ehrlich often used, with the wild pollinators, losing a species is a bit like losing screws in a plane. If you lose a few here or there, it's not the end of the world, and your plane can still fly. But if you lose too many, at some point, the whole plane can suddenly come apart in mid-flight."

Central Beekeepers Alliance » How to Help Honey Bees to Survive the Winter

As Canadian beekeepers work to rebuild after the unusually high overwintering losses of the winter of 2006-2007, what should be done to promote bee health and reduce future winterkill?