Monday, September 21, 2009

Where are the bees? Why are they dying?


It’s safe to say that the late John Muir would not recognize California’s vast Central Valley were he to visit today. When the intrepid Scots-American naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club travelled by foot through the region in the 1860s and 1870s he was astounded by the richness and diversity of the plants and flowers which carpeted the valley bottom and surged up the mountain slopes. In rapturous prose he described what he called the ‘bee pastures’...

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It is one long tour of duty covering the entire growing season. And it happens across North America. Honeybees are the migrant farm workers of the insect world. They’re critically important for almond growers – there would be no crop without them. And it’s good business for the beekeepers. But for the bees it’s another matter. They keep dying and no-one knows exactly why. Full story...

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