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Article: NEW RESEARCH ANNOUNCED FOR 'HONEY BEE COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER'
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 6, 2008
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The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture issued the following news release:
Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff today said the commonwealth will increase funding to continue research on the potentially devastating "Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder."
"Honey bees are critical to Pennsylvania agriculture and to our state's economy," said Wolff. "Pollination from the honey bees determines fruit set and increases fruit quality at an estimated value of $80 million. We can't afford to be lax in dealing with this problem."
A team of experts, including Pennsylvania acting State Apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp, rallied to address colony collapse disorder. In January 2007, the Department of ...