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A Purdue University study has found a popular type of pesticide – found across nearly half the state -- can be lethal to honeybees. But a leading producer…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports Indiana lost fewer honey bee colonies in the first quarter of this year than the first quarter of 2015, when…
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For around a decade, beekeepers have seen around one-quarter to one-third of their colonies die every year. There are many potential causes for the…
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The federal government will spend millions of dollars trying to figure out why honeybees and monarch butterflies are disappearing.Purdue entomology…
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Indiana beekeepers lost about half of the bees in their colonies this past year, according to a new study from the USDA’s Bee Informed Partnership.In…
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The honey bee population of North America is declining and new research may help answer why. It shows the bees can become hosts of a fly parasite, which causes them to become disoriented and leave their nests. Scott Simon talks with San Francisco State University's Andrew Core, who authored the study.