Reporting in the first week of October 2011, officials in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos state that extensive flooding this year has severely impacted staple crops such as rice, with 1 million hectares damaged in Thailand alone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMcxbIQxdaMhttp://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/06/170424.html http://www.france24.com/en/20111006-floods-drown-asias-rice-bowlAs many as 12 million honeybees within just a 1.5 mile (2.4 kilometer) radius of each other were discovered lifeless in Florida, USA's Brevard County, with preliminary investigation into the deaths, which occurred around September 26, 2011, revealing possible pesticide toxicity.
http://www.naturalnews.com/033781_honey_bees_pesticides.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044764/The-mysterious-honeybee-apocalypse-Up-12-million-bees-dead-dying-Florida-knows-why.html http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110930/NEWS01/309300018/Mysterious-south-Brevard-bee-kill-confounds-costs-keepers