Steiner reference more appropriate than Einstein 

In the organic agriculture world, a movement he was instrumental in creating, there is much mention of Rudolf Steiner's observation in 1924 that artificial beekeeping and especially management of queen bees would result in bees' disappearance in a century. Josef Graf's article at organicconsumers.org gives a long list of the invasive management measures that seem to fit Steiner's warning: .