Posts Tagged: PBS Newshour

Why Are the Bees in the Pool?

The declining bee population: Does chlorine in a swimming pool have anything to do with it? Chlorine? Ever since PBS NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels interviewed Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and...

Honey bee drinking water. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey bee drinking water. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Drenched bee fished out of a swimming pool. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Drenched bee fished out of a swimming pool. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey Bees Still in Trouble

Honey bees are still in trouble.University of California scientists hammered home that point tonight during the PBS NewsHour program on the colony collapse disorder (CCD) and the declining bee population. Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC...

Beekeepers Bill Cervenka (left) of Half Moon Bay and Randy Oliver of Grass Valley check out a frame in Healdsburg during a bee conference.. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

eekeepers Bill Cervenka (left) of Half Moon Bay and Randy Oliver of Grass Valley check out a frame in Healdsburg during a bee conference. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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