New Reports Of Colony Collapse Disorder Coming In From Florida Beekeepers - AJC

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WASHINGTON — Unexplained honeybee deaths have recently started showing up in Florida, the same state where the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder was first discovered a year ago, the Agriculture Department's top bee scientist said Thursday. Jeffrey Pettis, research leader of the department's Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., said it is too early to say if another round of bee die-offs has started.

The insect plague devastated thousands of commercial bee hives in several states last year, posing a threat to crops that depend on bees for pollination. When it occurs, worker bees fail to return to hives, leaving juvenile bees and some adults to die. "We have heard recently from Florida beekeepers who have colonies in declining health," said Pettis.

Speaking at a conference on problems that confront honeybees, bumblebees, butterflies, birds and other important pollinators, Pettis said specimens have been brought to his lab for analysis. Colony Collapse Disorder, known as CCD, was first reported by a Florida beekeeper in November of last year. It quickly started showing up in other states.

Pettis was a member of a team of government and university scientists who last month reported that a recently discovered bee virus had been linked to hives in which CCD had occurred, but not to healthy hives.

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[aquart]

1. No! Save the bees!

[Mojorabbit]

2. Mine are ok so far

I did have deformed wing virus this spring though.

[orleans]

3. pbs ran a nature show "the silence of the bees" on this

sunday night. it was very good.

[Dead_Parrot]

4. "The silence of the bees"?

So, the only way to get people to give a shit about CCD is to make it sound like an Antony Hopkins film?

"You people — if there’s not a movie about it, it’s not worth knowing."


OFHWAD.

[orleans]

5. i would have watched it regardless of the title. catchy title, but i don't

like movies like that--so that wasn't what possessed me to watch it.