Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Maine expert weighs in on colony collapse, etc.

I'm not quite sure what to make of this. It almost seems as if the interviewer is trying to steer the expert into saying there's no problem with bees, but while the guy hints that maybe there is some "Chicken Little" mentality at work, he also notes how unsustainable industrial farming is. He does focus on the larger issue of biodiversity. What I think we need to be cautious about is removing honeybees from that biodiverse population. It doesn't have to be a zero-sum game, where all the bees die for the sake of allowing other pollinators to practice their work.

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