So, all the frogs suddenly dying off was due to a fungus, not climate change. What about the bees?

It would be nice and simple if every problem had a single cause. The lay public would understand it. However, you have to ask yourself why the fungus became lethal so suddenly (in geologic time). Was it not here until the climate changed enough for the fungus to spread? Or was it fought off until something else weakened the frogs?

Similarly, there seem to be several contributing causes to the CCD in bees. Recently a study found that some pesticides were more abundant in healthy hives than in the affected ones. Stress seems to be a factor because traveling hives, which are trucked around to fertilize crops, are more affected than the sedentary hives or the wild hives. A lot of workers claim to have found THE cause but nobody has eliminated the problem, be it virus, over-harvesting of honey, cell phone towers, pollen from GM crops, or something else.

In other words, simple answers often mean that the problem is not well-understood.

Frogs are experiencing a global decline, which isn't explained by the presence of chytridomycosis alone. There's no reason to rule out climate change as a factor in the spread and/or possible mutation of the fungus, as well as other compounding variables including the multitude of chemicals we release on an hourly basis. A fungus from tropical Africa shouldn't really be thriving globally like it is on it's own.

The latest I've heard on the honeybee decline is that it's possibly due to modern agricultural crops producing indigestible pollen after generations of selective breeding. It could also be a response from native vegetation that relied on native pollinators that were extirpated when honeybees were introduced.

colony collapse or being bred out by conquering africanized bees? all due to climate change and global warming which encourages fungus and insect parasites and has tipped a balance, ? quite possibly. Can the bees adapt.??? for our sakes as humans i hope so.

Ever heard of chemical trails = chemtrails? Sounds like Science fiction, but so does the dying of bees.

"In particular, the skin peptide defenses were significantly reduced after exposure to cabaryl, suggesting that pesticides may inhibit this innate immune defense, and increase susceptibility to disease"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batrachochytrium_dend...

So....pesticides polluting the waterways increases frogs chances of dying of the disease. Hmmm...a cleaner environment will help the frog population....imagine that.

ccording nile virus sertan chemikal been in use my affect bees ...so in sertan areas bees like hi altitude moskitos like low altitude to fly so wild bees or home bees newer go to low altitude if i is dey are dead so most of them like mountans,,,,,,, that you ansver,, yuriy