A very disturbing public health trend has been observed over the past 11 years. Our results suggest a causal link between amount of honey produced in the United States and mortality caused by limb amputation. We demonstrate that severed limbs translocate in a beekeeper dependent manner to bee colonies and activate receptors in bees that increase honey production because they fear their limbs being cut off if they don't produce enough honey. Previous research has also shown if you knock out the fear sensor in bees, that there is no increase in honey production following severed limb exposure compared to a vehicle treatment. We demonstrate that if the beekeepers did not place limbs in proximity to bee colonies, there was no increase in honey production. We did not consider if the mortality caused by the amputation of limbs was caused by overworked disgruntled worker bees, or if the limbs may originate from beekeepers not wearing adequate PPE, and therefore these may be confounding variables in our study. Also not considered was a possible reverse causality effect where honey consumption causes aggressive behaviors that lead to death by dismemberment. Future directions for this line of work include exposing bees to scary movies, torture, and other threatening stimuli to study the effect of fear on honey production.