Are the bees coming back?

Question

My girlfriend and I love the small creatures that make our life of comfort possible. What would we do without bees? If they ceased to exist, fruits and vegetables would be very expensive for lack of effective pollinators.

Two years ago our garden was a “buzz” with bees, hummingbirds, and such. Last year there was hardly a bee around. Well, maybe dead ones floating in my swimming pool.

Needless to say, our vegetables did poorly, for lack of pollination.

My girlfriend pointed out that our garden is once again full of bees. The gentle hum of hundreds, of bees can be heard from our front patio once again!

Does this mean they are back for good? Did we help in some small way, by adding flowering plants to our low water usage landscape?

Yes, I know about the recent collapse of bee colonies. What I am asking is, has the plague that is killing them, gone?

Answer 1

According to this article, no, they are not coming back.

Answer 2

I hope the bees do drastically decline, and I'll tell you why:

1 - I have something personal against them.
2 - If they decline and food production drops, maybe we won't have this BS about kickbacks for farmers
3 - Maybe we'll start paying attention to the environment and taking care of the planet, (you know a guy built a car that runs a hundred miles on four ounces of WATER?!)
4 - There will bee no unemployment - there'll be thousands of Mexicans out in the fields rubbing flowers together.

And no, I don't think they're back for good.

Answer 3

I am not sure, I have 2 hives on the property and they seem to be doing just fine. But, from what I hear there is a real shortage of bees and no one knows just what is going on. More research on the matter is called for.

Answer 4

The bees are not coming back until all the GM crops are destroyed, when nature rejects mans tinkering with the creation of god then something is drastically wrong.

Therefore we as the human consumers should reject GM crops also, before it's too late.