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Have Bees Become Canaries In the Coal Mine? Why Massive Bee Dieoffs May Be a Warning About Our Own Health

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. February 12, 2012.

What scientists are beginning to understand about the cause of colony collapse could be a message for all of us.

Beeline to Extinction: Saving Our Threatened Pollinators Is Key to Global Food Security

Naomi Starkman, Inside Scoop SF. May 27, 2010.

More than a third of U.S. managed honeybee colonies -- those set up for intensified pollination of commercial crops -- failed to survive this past winter.

Bad News for Bees: High Levels Of Pesticides & Breakdown Products Found in Bees Wax and Pollen

John Laumer, TreeHugger. March 26, 2010.

Worker bees keep bringing residual pesticides back until they're knocked down by especially high exposures or become disoriented due to chronic exposure.

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