Thursday, September 3, 2009

What we know about saving the bees

From the New York Times' Room For Debate blog.
Thanks to the terrific gene sleuthing of May Berenbaum and others, it looks like the pieces of the colony collapse disorder puzzle are starting to fit together. And we can stop arguing about who was right: The virus camp, the fungus camp, the pesticide camp, the varroa mite camp, or the nutrition camp. It turns out everybody was right. (Well, everybody except the cell-phone and microwave-tower camps.)
Go read what experts have to say about the mysterious collapse of honeybee colonies.

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