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Article: Colony-collapse disorder, stress among threats to pollinators.
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- The Blade (Toledo, OH)
- Article date:
- June 10, 2007
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Byline: Jenni Laidman
Jun. 10--Consider the life of the modern honeybee.
In fall, she and her buzzing colony -- along with hundreds of other hives in Lyle Keller's care -- prepare to winter in Florida. In the dark tractor-trailer, she travels nearly 1,000 miles from Arcadia in Seneca County to a winter home on a farm near Daytona Beach.
The brief winter respite is over in February when the hive is moved to the orange groves for pollination work.
Of course, our original bee is dead by this time, her four to seven-week adult life span over. But her sisters move on to work the apple orchards near Lake Erie, then on to cucumbers, pumpkins, ...