Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Educated Fleas Do It
By Barbara Fix
For the trivia buffs out there, "Let's fall In Love" was first recorded in Paris in 1928, and the words held true until the honeybees began to disappear in late 2006. Befuddled honeybee keepers remain alarmed over the sheer magnitude of the problem that is a staggering 30% to 90% loss, with the hardest hit beekeepers reporting a nearly total loss of their colonies. As the scientific community became involved, the bee loss was given the term of Honeybee Colony Collapse Syndrome.
The US is not the only country to suffer honeybee losses. Canada, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Greece also reported heavy losses, and soon Switzerland, Germany, South and Central America and Asia reported losses with their honeybee colonies as well.
Honeybees pollinate approximately one third of our fruit and vegetable crops, including almonds, apples, blackberries, cantaloupe, cherries, cranberries, cucumbers, peaches, pears, (Read More....)
