Fortunately, however, an estimated 60 million beekeepers worldwide continue to keep bee colonies, each with anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 bees, and in addition there are wild bees in numbers too great to estimate.
所幸目前全球估計還有 6,000 萬個由蜂農飼養的蜂群，一個蜂群有一到三萬隻不等的蜜蜂，加上無法估算的野生蜂群，短時間之內，蜂蜜滅絕的事情應該不致發生。