Bee plague worsening, anxious keepers say - The Diigo Meta page

• 29 Mar 08
  

  Arne Løining

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• 25 Mar 08
  

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  1/2 of US bees used to pollenate California almonds; "The USDA projection is that 40 percent of our vegetables will be from China by 2012"

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  • A survey of 22 apiarists from 10 states who took their bees to California to help get out the almond crop estimates about 37 percent of the 230,500 colonies managed by those beekeepers have been lost, said Jeff Pettis, a research entomologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's bee research lab in Beltsville, Md.

  • hard-pressed beekeepers have nevertheless had to raise their pollination rates.

     
  • "The USDA projection is that 40 percent of our vegetables will be from China by 2012."

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