Thanks for the suggestion to do a search on Lexis-Nexis. Unfortunately, my apricot tree had no fruit this year - so my immediate fear was realized in a small way. On the other hand, I found an article written by a bee person with an interesting take on the fate of honeybees..

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/10/HOG5FOH9VQ1.DTL

Godspeed!