Are bees going extinct?Ramesh Sagili, Associate Professor of Apiculture at the Oregon State University, said "I'm not worried about bees being extinct here. I'm worried about beekeepers being extinct."In this article, I present some information on the fall and rise of beekeeping in the U.S. and the importance of beekeepers in the survival of the honey bee. Are bees really going extinct? According to The Species Recovery Trust, 22 species of bee have become extinct in England in the last 200 years. A 2003 survey in New York, where the rusty patched bumble bee was considered historically to be moderately abundant, failed to find any rusty patched bumble bees. So it is true that certain types of bees have disappeared from the world. Unfortunately, when the public hears that bees are vanishing, they think of honey bees. And this is encouraged by inaccurate news reports.
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