Couldn't sleep at all last night: Heat made me turn on the ceiling fan and the noise from that kept me imagining there were little creatures from outer space creeping around the house. Then because I had been reading about the disappearance of the bee before going to bed ... all night long I kept mulling over this nightmare scenario where our bees were being abducted by little creatures from outer space (after they had, naturally, gone through all their own planet's fierce beasts) to be used in their bizarre rite of passage from "boy"to "warrior" (in which each "boy" had to engage in a fight to the death with a "fierce creature" from another planet (our bee). I "watched" a couple of the fight, and they were pretty horrifying.
Otherwise, since this is a world-wide phenomenon, there must be a world-wide cause. And the only thing I can think of off the top on my head happening world-wide right now is the shifting of the earth' magnetic field(s).
Whatever the cause turns out to be, the mystery is truly upsetting on many human levels. Reminds one of just how fragile our existence on this planet really is.
S D Rodrian
All religions are local. Only science is universal.