This article is about honeybees (Apis Mellifera) and how they are beginning to vanish. Since 2006, beekeepers would open their hives to find no bees, only honeycomb, wax, and honey. One- third of the U.S. honeybee colonies died or disappeared during the past winter. The disappearance of bees caused food items in the Rhode Island Whole Foods to vanish on the shelves (apples, lemons, zucchini, and etc.). The disappearance of honeybees has effected the Earth in many ways. People are losing their job as beekeepers, businesses losing money due to decrease of food, and etc. One person effected by the disappearance is Jim Doan. He has been keeping bees since the age of 5 and he recently had to give up his beekeeping business. He sold the 112 acres
