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A persistent disease is killing honey bees, affecting farmers across the US. Now, a team of researchers—including several from Oregon State University—are on the case.
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Over three years, hundreds of volunteers will fan out across California to survey wild bees, with the goal of piecing together a picture of where they live and which species are in trouble.
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The thousands of bees that died in Oregon a couple of summers ago did not die in vain. The die-off, a result of pesticide use, increased awareness of both…
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Maybe the physical environment is tough, but the cultural climate is really good for bees right now. The mass bee kills of 2013 in Oregon only added to a…
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Bees are critically important to plants and the food supply, and they've had serious survival problems in recent years. We could work to remove all…
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How much of what we take for granted in the plant world would disappear without pollinators? We probably don't want to find out. Problems with bee colony…
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It's not easy to say "neonicotinoid pesticide," perhaps harder still to pass legislation regulating it. The Oregon Legislature backed off new regulations…
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The killing of tens of thousands of bees in the Portland area last year sparked widespread concern about the use of pesticides. And the concern translated…
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The bodies of 50,000 dead bees no longer litter the parking lot of a Portland-area shopping center.But the impact of last June's bee kill is still being…
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The recent pesticide-caused bee deaths in northern Oregon underscored the importance of bees to agriculture… and so to us and our food supply. No…