If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!
A variant — "Professor Einstein, the learned scientist, once calculated that if all bees disappeared off the earth, four years later all humans would also have disappeared" — appears in The Irish Beekeeper, v.19-20, 1965-66, p74, citing Abeilles et Fleurs (Bees and Flowers, the house magazine of Union Nationale de l'Apiculture Française) for June 1965. Snopes.com mentions its use in a beekeepers' protest in 1994 in Europe http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp suggesting invention and attribution to Einstein for political reasons.
Misattributed
“Si muere la abeja reina, al ser humano le quedan 4 horas de vida.”
“La abeja laboriosa no tiene tiempo para la tristeza.”
“Para la abeja laboriosa no hay tiempo de estar triste.”
“Una casa sin hijos es una colmena sin abejas.”
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero] (2013), p. 151.
“Lo que no conviene al enjambre, tampoco a la abeja”
Fuente: Meditaciones
“Un puñado de abejas vale más que un saco de moscas.”
