Disease parasites or starvation a typical crime scene.

disease, parasites or starvation.A typical crime scene has almost no adult bees left in the hive,except, perhaps, a lonely queen and a few other survivors.It's full of untouched food stores and a brood of unborn larvae,suggesting that the adults vacated without waiting for them to hatch.But what's particularly eerie is that there's no tell-tale mass of dead or dying bees nearby.Either they have forgotten their way back to the hive,or they have simply disappeared.These mysterious disappearances aren't new.Humans have been collecting honey for centuries.But it wasn't until European settlers in the 1600's introduced the subspecies,Apis mellifera,that we domesticated bees.