"There were enough honeybees to provide pollination for U.S. agriculture this year,” said a U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesperson recently, “but beekeepers could face a serious problem next year and beyond." We wrote to you about “colony collapse disorder” way back on April 30 when the world was worried that cell phone towers were killing off bees in vast proportions. While that notion seems a bit unrealistic, the USDA is concerned enough about bee populations to launch a massive case study, which was finalized with a positive response plan late last month.
We’ll spare you the details, but we’ll leave you with these words of assurance from the USDA: "This action plan provides a coordinated framework to ensure that all of the research that needs to be done is covered in order to get to the bottom of the CCD problem.” The department estimated that honeybees pollinate more than 130 crops in the United States and add $15 billion in crop value annually. Albert Einstein himself once guessed that if honeybees were to become extinct, the world would starve in less than four years.
We’ll spare you the details, but we’ll leave you with these words of assurance from the USDA: "This action plan provides a coordinated framework to ensure that all of the research that needs to be done is covered in order to get to the bottom of the CCD problem.” The department estimated that honeybees pollinate more than 130 crops in the United States and add $15 billion in crop value annually. Albert Einstein himself once guessed that if honeybees were to become extinct, the world would starve in less than four years.
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