03.27.10
Too-Busy Bees
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/opinion/25harder.html
March 25, 2010
Op-Ed Contributors
Too-Busy Bees
By MARCELO AIZEN and LAWRENCE HARDER
IN the past five years, as the phenomenon known as colony-collapse disorder has spread across the United States and Europe, causing the disappearance of whole colonies of domesticated honeybees, many people have come to fear that our food supply is in peril. The news on Wednesday that a Department of Agriculture survey found that American honeybees had died in great numbers this winter can only add to such fears.
The truth, fortunately, is not nearly so dire. But it is more complicated.