Washington Whispers: Bee Experts Say Money Is Needed to Address Colony Collapse

April 30, 2008 RSS Feed Print
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Not everybody was pleased with our item yesterday about Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer's belief that the government was spending enough money to unlock the mystery of the honeybee crisis. Our pal Kim Flottum, editor of the industry trade journal Bee Culture, blogged that money is the key to solving colony collapse disorder. "Does the USDA even care about the bee crisis?" he asks on his The Daily Green blog. Read it here.

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Why do they say cell phone comunication has led to the bee declination? Is that even possible?

glug glug of WY 1:03PM October 11, 2010

My name is Emily and I am a sophmore at Naperville North High school. Right now I am in a ecological Biology class and I need a bee expert to email me back about questions I have for a project. Please email me as soon as you can!!!!!

Here are my Questions:

1: Why are all the honeybees dissapearing?

2: What are the consequences of bee declination?

3: What can we do to stop it?

Thank you so much, and again please email me back as soon as you can!!!

Emily of IL 9:15PM December 10, 2008

Why isn't the food bee's eat checked out more. A fellow at Hebron, ND found that the corn syrup he was using to feed his bees were making them sick. I came from the treatment the farmers were using to genetically treat their corn for pesticides.

of ND 11:26PM May 08, 2008

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