Plan BEE used 100,000 bees to create this SOS (Save Our Swarm) "bee"-llboard drawing attention to the worldwide problem of honey bee population decline. For some unknown reason, honey bees have been disappearing at an alarming rate in the past few decades. Beekeepers have noticed that more than half of their colonies have died. Honey bees aren't even found in the wild any longer.
Dude Craft has got the 30-sec video clip: Link
There is no doubt that CCD is an enormous problem for our time. Bee keepers in the US are losing huge numbers of their bees ever year. They even had to fly bees in all the way from Australia this year to help pollinate crops in California.
Beekeepers took a while to admit there was a problem because they are a self reliant bunch who have developed methods to cope with sporadic bee loss. However, the scale of loss is unprecedented.
These people are no different than farmers. They are down to earth people who love what they do. If they get together and say there is a problem, then there is a problem. These are not just a bunch of hippies or welfare check collectors. They don't want the government to give them handouts, but they also don't want to have to give up a profession they love.