Guest guest Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastropheDisturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter.The decline of the country's estimated 2.4 million beehives began in 2006, when a phenomenon dubbed colony collapse disorder (CCD) led to the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of colonies. Since then more than three million colonies in the US and billions of honeybees worldwide have died and scientists are no nearer to knowing what is causing the catastrophic fall in numbers.The number of managed honeybee colonies in the US fell by 33.8% last winter, according to the annual survey by the Apiary Inspectors of America and the US government's Agricultural Research Service (ARS).Complete article here:http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/02/food-fear-mystery-beehives-collapse#post-areaCharlieExeland WI Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Learn more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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