Stinging loss for US farms as honeybees vanish
New Jersey Star-Ledger
04/16/07
Jean-Claude Tassot felt the sunshine spilling over his shoulders. It was unseasonably warm for January — a good day, he decided, to check his honeybees. So Tassot jumped in his truck and rumbled over the back roads of Morris County to the first of the eight farms where he stores his boxes of hives. ‘When you first take the cover off, usually you can see the bees,’ said Tassot. ‘But when I looked, there was nothing. I kept looking (but) the hives were all dead.’ Tassot drove to the next farm, then the next and the next. At every stop it was the same thing. Out of 171 hives, 140 were wiped out. Even the few dozen that remained were weak at best. ‘It was a catastrophe,’ he said...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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04/16/07
Jean-Claude Tassot felt the sunshine spilling over his shoulders. It was unseasonably warm for January — a good day, he decided, to check his honeybees. So Tassot jumped in his truck and rumbled over the back roads of Morris County to the first of the eight farms where he stores his boxes of hives. ‘When you first take the cover off, usually you can see the bees,’ said Tassot. ‘But when I looked, there was nothing. I kept looking (but) the hives were all dead.’ Tassot drove to the next farm, then the next and the next. At every stop it was the same thing. Out of 171 hives, 140 were wiped out. Even the few dozen that remained were weak at best. ‘It was a catastrophe,’ he said...
http://tinyurl.com/2s3ojx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bees
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=bees
rudkla - 17. Apr, 15:52
