Well, here in Florida where I'm at, the bee population has been
   growing like crazy. I don't know about elsewhere though. We have
   lots of orange farms around where I live. More and more bees
   every year for the past 13/14 years. Seems to me that it's not
   so much a decrease in the bee population but a decrease in the
   amount of bee keeping as a hobby. Nobody to count the bees.