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Washington – Beekeepers throughout the United States have been losing between 50 and 90 percent of their honeybees over the past six months, perplexing scientists, driving honey prices higher and threatening fruit and vegetable production.
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At a House Agricultural Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., members of various organizations came together to share their concerns about what they have been calling the “Colony Collapse Disorder,” or CCD.
Honeybees have been mysteriously dying across the United States, sending honey prices higher and threatening the agriculture industry.
Beginning in October 2006, beekeepers from 24 states reported that hundreds of thousands of their bees were dying and their colonies were being devastated.
In December 2006, beekeepers’ associations, scientists and officials formed the CCD working group, in hopes of identifying the cause and solving the problem of CCD.
Most of the beekeepers who have recently reported heavy losses associated with CCD are large commercial migratory beekeepers, some of whom are losing 50 percent to 90 percent of their colonies. [CNN]
laugh all you want you moron but if you have no bees you have no vegetables and this is how famines first start.
You seem to know nothing about farming but a little lesson is bees polinate everything and without bees we have major problems. This problem will force the prices of veggies to keep on going up.
L’shana Tova….Umisukah?????