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19 March, 2010
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11 - Colony Collapse Disorder
- 12:50 Sick bees
- Rowan Jacobsen on colony collapse disorder. It's killing billions of the world's honeybees but nobody really knows why. (duration: 23′30″)
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It's killing billions of the world's honeybees but nobody really knows why. And with bees pollinating crops that provide us humans with a third of our calories it could seriously affect what's on our plates for dinner.
I'm speaking to Rowan Jacobsen who's just written ‘Fruitless Fall’ a book about CCD and what's behind it
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Resources
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Bee Photos
A gallery of images.
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Honey Harvest
A gallery of images.
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Bee Chased
If you have too much time on your hands!
Episodes
- 1 - Meet the beekeeper
- 2 - Hive location
- 3 - Catching a swarm of bees
- 4 - Building the hive
- 5 - Arrival of the bees
- 6 - Merging swarm with hive
- 7 - Hive check-up
- 8 - Pre-Xmas visit
- 9 - Trouble in the Hive
- 10 - New queen on the block
- 11 - Colony Collapse Disorder
- 12 - Toxic Tutu
- 13 - Beehive Check
- 14 - Honey Extraction
- 15 - A Taste of Honey
- 16 - Varroa treatment
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