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  • From: lbsaltzman@aol.com
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  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Mysterious honeybee deaths drive honey prices higher - Mar. 29, 2007
  • Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:27:29 -0400

Is there any evidence that this is also affecting feral European bees and
wild bees? Our garden is swarming with bees this year.

-----Original Message-----
From: lfl@intrex.net
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 2:19 PM
Subject: [permaculture] Mysterious honeybee deaths drive honey prices higher
- Mar. 29, 2007



<http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/29/news/honeybees/index.htm?cnn=yes>

The mysterious deaths of the honeybees
Honeybee colony collapse drives price of honey higher and threatens fruit and
vegetable production.
By CNN's Amy Sahba
March 29 2007: 4:16 PM EDT

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.

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