Plan Bee: As Honeybees Die Out, Will Other Species Take Their Place?
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 16:21
in Biology & Nature
Honeybees have been dying in record numbers in the U.S. for at least the past two years. Experts attribute the mass deaths to a catchall condition known as colony collapse disorder (CCD), although both a cure and the culprit remain elusive. Despite as much as a 35 percent loss of bees per year, we remain almost entirely dependent on what until recently was a self-renewing annual population of billions of honeybees to pollinate over 130 kinds of fruit and nut crops. [More]
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