Honeybee Collapse Strikes Japan, Up to Fifty Percent of Honeybees Gone…

For the first time, Japan has been hit with a large-scale collapse of honeybee populations like that experienced in other countries around the world.

Honeybee shortage threatens fruit and vegetable producers in Japan

There are too few honeybees in Japan. While one immediately associates the busy yellow and black insects with honey, Japan’s honey production is not the area of agriculture most threatened by the decline in the bee population. Fruit and vegetable farmers also depend on honeybees to pollinate their plants, and the shortage of bees has gone so far as to create fears of a produce shortage, one that could threaten dinner tables across Japan.