Take that, Professor Falken!

[Orrex]

Once upon a time, there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start again. With the bees, probably.

--Professor Stephen Falken, 1983

Oh, really? Shows what you know, you WOPR-designing recluse!

Who'd've thunk that I could wipe out a millennially successful species just by downloading the latest Akon ringtones?

[atommom]

1. Maybe nature decided not to go with the bees next, after all.

I think cockroaches are probably hardier.

[mr blur]

2. The wasps are behind it.

Jealousy.

[LeftishBrit]

3. It's not the bees, it's the ants!

The Brontosaurus had a brain no bigger than a crisp.
The Dodo has a stammer and the Mammoth had a lisp.
The auk was just too awkward, now they're none of them alive.
Each one, like Man, had shown himself unfitted to survive.
Their story points a moral, now it's we who wear the pants;
The extinction of these species holds a lesson for us ants.

(Flanders and Swann, The Bestiary, 1961)

[JackRiddler]

4. Since no one currently knows what's happening to the bees...

Why would you eliminate or ridicule one of the possibilities (and possible it is) in advance of the ongoing examination by at this point thousands of scientists?