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Article: A bee mystery: Vacant hives a problem for agriculture.
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- The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
- Article date:
- June 5, 2007
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Byline: Tom Venesky
Jun. 5--MONROE TWP. -- It's like the Bermuda Triangle of the insect world. Honeybees leave their hives in search of nectar and never return. No one knows where they went or why they vanished. In the meantime, beekeepers keep their fingers crossed that they won't find their hives empty. Fruit growers hope enough bees will survive to pollinate their crops, and science continues to look for a cause ... and an answer.
One of the only known facts about the phenomenon is its name -- Colony Collapse Disorder.
Beekeepers began to notice serious losses of bees during the last three months of 2006, according to Maryann Frazier, from ...