From WBOC:
Bee distributors and keepers have reported mysterious and dramatic spikes in honey bee die-offs recently, and local beekeepers say the impacts of the deaths may soon be felt at farms and grocery stores if they continue. Hundreds of millions of bees have died in the past eight months, according to experts, threatening to plunge beekeepers and farmers - both here on Delmarva and nationally - into a crisis. There is currently no consensus on what is causing the die-offs. Dr. Jeff Pettis, an entomologist in Salisbury and President of Apimondia, the International Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations, tells WBOC it could be a complex array of factors. (Read more.)
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