My Grandchildren’s Bees Are Dying.

And the world that notices beehaves badly

By blaming pesticides and parasites—we miss the real, rising threat. New physiological meta-model shows with high confidence Bees have been overtaken as CO2 is reaching  and crossing a smothering threshold in their air!

🐝 An Invisible Crisis Is Rising… Inside the Hive

In a typical hive of 30,000 bees, their breathing produces large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO₂). Bees manage this with simple elegance—workers stand at the entrance of the hive and tirelessly fan the air with their wings, flushing out stale air and pulling in fresh. This sweet ventilation is crucial for their survival, especially for the vulnerable larvae and pupae.

But CO₂ isn’t an inert waste gas. As concentrations rise, it drugs the bees. It slows their movements, dulls their minds, and reduces their ability to fan in a deadly feedback trap. This slowing of thier wings causes CO₂ levels to rise, the hive ventilation system breaks down and CO2 levels can rapidly rise to lethal concentrations. We’ve just completed the latest version of our rigorous physics and physiological mathmatical model that ties decades of data and observations to unravel and describe how our high and rising CO2 in the atmosphere is killing our precious sweet bees. Wonders of wonders statistical analysis in the paper give rise to a golden, or is that bleak, 3 Sigma level of confidence!

The hive becomes a trap.

Worse still, as global atmospheric CO₂ has steadily increased—now over 420 ppm—the concentration inside hives has risen vastly higher. Just within the past 25 years or so the bees have lost thier ability to thrive, even survive. Lower levels of CO2 once allowed bees to passively ventilate their homes has but they have weakened.

Over the past decade, hive air has crept into a lethal range. My models, supported by observed bee mortality data, suggest that hives crossed a critical CO₂ threshold around 2006. Since then, mortality has rapidly accelerated as we have seen in global news reports, now we have the physics to understand this deadly crisis.

The Data Speaks

I’ve spent years fascinated by bees, tending a hive or two, and as I grew older developing a physics-physiological based model of in-hive CO₂ accumulation. With help from AI to help me gather and crunch the numbers and refine the curve, the picture became startlingly clear.

Bee colony losses rise year by year, tracking the CO₂ rise almost perfectly. In fact, the projected in-hive CO₂ concentration matches observed losses so well it’s impossible to ignore. By scientific statistical standards the results are irrefutable.

We’re not just losing bees—we’re standing by watching them slowly suffocate.

But What About Pesticides?

Yes, pesticides hurt bees. But here’s what no one wants to admit:

Bee die-offs are happening even where pesticides are perfectly absent.
In organic farms. In remote meadows. In protected forests.

Other usual suspects—neonicotinoids, mites, viruses—can’t explain this universal pattern. The truth is, we’ve been following a false trail for far too long. And while we blame chemicals and those bad people using them, our bees are perishing from something far more pervasive:

The rising CO₂ in their air.

A Simple, Scalable Fix

The good news is: we can help.

We don’t need to wait for global emissions treaties or decade-long research trials. We can start today—one hive at a time.

The solution perhaps?
Solar-powered hive ventilators programmed to keep hive CO2 levels healthy.

Tiny, cost-effective devices that:

Monitor in-hive CO₂
Trigger small fans before levels become dangerous
Restore airflow when bees can’t fan themselves
Save the brood
Give bees back their breath
They’re simple. Affordable. Proven in principle.
And they can be deployed everywhere now, as that is where bees are in danger.

Without Bees, Goodbye to Mom’s Apple Pie

This isn’t just a bee issue—it’s a human one.

Bees pollinate over 75% of the crops that feed us. Without them, we lose:

Apples, cherries, peaches, strawberries
Cucumbers, squash, avocados, almonds
Sunflowers and canola for oils
Coffee blossoms, cocoa flowers, wild herbs…
No more Mom’s Apple Pie.
No more summer berries.
No more nuts, no more seeds, no more flowers for our lady friends.

Many farmers are already forced to truck in replacement bees by the millions just to keep their crops alive. That’s not sustainability—it’s a red flag.

One out of every three bites of food you eat comes from a bee’s loving labor.

If we lose them, we lose far more than our honey.

Let the Bees Breathe

Colony Collapse Disorder isn’t a mystery.
It’s chronic CO₂ poisoning—slow, silent, and now deadly.

And I say this not only as a bee lover and researcher, but as a grandfather.
I’ve watched this crisis build for over two decades.
And now, thanks to data, modeling, and the help of AI, the truth has been scraped from the global internet and come into sharp and perfect focus.

My grandchildren’s bees are dying.

But they don’t have to.

We can fit hives with smart fans.
We can refrest their air and keep the CO₂ at safe levels.
We can stop chasing shadows—and start listening to the bees.

Because they are speaking.
And what they are asking is simple:

Let us breathe.

Want the Full Scientific Paper?

This blog post offers the heartfelt overview—but if you’re looking for the full science behind the story, it’s all documented in my formal paper:

Title: The Hidden Lethal Agent in the Hive: Atmospheric CO₂ as the Primary Driver of Global Bee Collapse
Includes: Full model equations, CO₂-bee mortality data, dose-response curves, Mauna Loa CO₂ records, and extensive references.

If you’d like a copy, just contact me directly via the blog or leave a comment and I’ll be glad to send it.

Let’s get the data out there—for the bees, and for our future.

Don’t just sit there, help Build The Buzz and save my, and your grandchildren’s bees.