Posted on 03/29/2007 5:14:22 PM PDT by mmanager
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- 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. At a House Agricultural Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., today, 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.
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We’re having problems with the loss of hives in the Bakersfield, CA area...we’re quite agricultural here, so it’s a baaad thing!!!
However...this house might be where they’ve all been hiding:
http://www.bakersfield.com/619/story/125467.html
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