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Food Crop Threat: U.S. Honeybee Population Down 60%, Rreseachers Baffled
Environment  (tags: environment, nature, conservation, bees, food crops )

Tom
- 597 days ago - progressivetrail.org
During the last two years, 50 percent of hives and 60 percent of the honey bee population in the United States has died due to what scientists are calling "colony collapse disorder". Despite the severity of this crisis, there is no known cause.
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Panic in the Beehive
Environment  (tags: BEES, disease, protection, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, endangered, ecosystems, conservation, wildlife )


- 653 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
If the UK lost its honey bees the countryside would face devastation, and that is exactly what beekeepers fear could happen.
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Bees Are Trying to Tell Us Something, and We Had Better Listen!
Environment  (tags: Bees, animals, people, ecosystems, endangered, environment, Habitat Destruction, cell phones, wireless, human-animals, pesticides, Earth )

Victoria
- 685 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Bees are dying across the world at a terrifying rate. The apian epidemic started in the United States, where entire populations of honey bees have simply vanished in the phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD).
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'SILENCE OF THE BEES'! They Could Be Extinct By 2035.
Environment  (tags: honey bees, bees, bee keepers, honey, CCD )

Vicky
- 761 days ago - pbs.org
Since honeybees are responsible for 1 out of 3 bites of food we eat, scientists are scrambling to find the cause and cure of CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder). If the honeybees and their colonies disappear, so will most of our fruits and vegetables!
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Conservation International: Bee Good to the Planet - Take the Pledge
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, protection, science, habitat, bees, small creatures, destruction )

Thunderr
- 762 days ago - getinvolved.conservation.org
Did you know that you should thank bees for one out of every three bites of food you eat? That's because these busy little creatures help pollinate much of the food we eat everyday. Unfortunately the world's bees and other small creatures are in trouble>>
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Gardens 'Vital' for UK Bumblebees
Environment  (tags: United Kingdom, insects, bellweather species, bees, climate change, environmental damage, animal populations, gardening for insects, pollenators )

Rooibos
- 858 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Volunteers were asked to look for bumblebee nests as gardens are key habitats for the UK's nesting bumblebees, a survey suggests. Scientists have found that the bees' nests are more likely to be located in gardens than in habitats such as woodlands or gra
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Colony Collapse and Honeycomb Size -
Environment  (tags: bees, ecosystems, extinction, organic agriculture )

Nicole
- 921 days ago - gnn.tv
Colony Collapse Disorder in domestic honey bees is all the buzz lately, mostly because honey bees pollinate food crops for humans. However, we would not be so dependent on commercial non-native factory farmed honey bees if we were not killing off native p
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Organic Bees Are Thriving While Pesticide Intensive Conventional Bee Hive Colonies Are Collapsing
Environment  (tags: bees, hive collapse, pesticides )

Ramona
- 924 days ago - organicconsumers.org
While no one is certain why honey bee colonies are collapsing, factory farmed honey bees are more susceptible to stress from environmental sources than organic or feral honey bees. Most people think beekeeping is all natural but in commercial operations
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Bees on Their Knees
Environment  (tags: agriculture, bees, animals, conservation, ecosystems, environment, endangered, habitatdestruction, pollution, research, scientists, wildlife, world )

Jadonia
- 933 days ago - loe.org
A mysterious ailment is killing the nation's honeybees, and it's spreading over nearly half the United States. Steve Curwood talks with Jerry Hayes, chief of the Apiary Section of Florida's Department of Agriculture.
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Bees May Be Losing Their Sting
Environment  (tags: bees, climate, extinction, science, scientists, habitatdestruction, world, wildlife )

Kelly
- 935 days ago - newsday.com
Mites, weather, mysterious disappearances threaten honeybees used to pollinate crops on Long Island and across the United States
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Science Matters: The Disappearing Bees
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, bees, endangered, world )


- 938 days ago - straightgoods.ca
by David Suzuki. Mysterious phenomenon has researchers baffled.
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A World Without Bees Is a World Without Chocolate / Professor Says Urban Gardeners Could Avert An Ecological Catastrophe
Environment  (tags: agriculture, bees, ecosystems, environment, health )

Larry
- 999 days ago - sfgate.com
By documenting bee diversity and populations in urban gardens throughout California, he's discovering which flowering plants attract native bees and determining whether urban gardens can support bees. He said the declining native bee population is compara
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U.S. Bees Succumbing to Mystery Disease
Environment  (tags: agriculture, endangered, ecosystems, health, bees )

Corinne
- 1007 days ago - worldwatch.org
oneybee populations in the United States are being decimated by a mysterious new disease, the Associated Press reported last week. The previously unknown ailment, termed "colony collapse disorder," is killing
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