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Article: No fruits of their labor? Mysterious drop in bees is a threat to our food supply.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2007
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Byline: Jameel Naqvi
jnaqvi@@dailyherald.com
The bees are disappearing, and no one knows why.
Since last fall, hundreds of thousands of beehives around the United States have been wiped out.
The scientists who study bees - apiologists - are mystified. They say the culprit could be anything from pesticides to parasites to inadequate nutrition or a combination of factors.
At stake is billions of dollars in food - from fruits and vegetables to crops that feed livestock - dependent on bees for pollination.
If all honey bees were to disappear, many fruit and vegetable crops could be decimated.