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Beekeeper James Doan first began finding empty hives last fall. Entire bee colonies seemed to have up and vanished, leaving their honey behind. Noting the unusually wet fall in Hamlin, New York, he blamed the weather. Unable to forage in the rain, the bees probably starved, he reasoned. But when deserted hives began appearing daily, "we knew it was something different," he says.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040507ED.shtml

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Threat to agriculture as mystery killer wipes out honeybee hives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2054914,00.html


Informant: binstock

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Keepers fear mystery bee illness
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/13/nbee13.xml


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