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NBC Evening New Story About Sick Bees in Minnesota
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Stellio Matson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 10 May 2012 21:28:15 -0700
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp=47379683%EF%BF%BD#47379683g

This version has expanded interviews with Steve Ellis, the affected
beekeeper and Dr. David Fischer of Bayer CropScience.
http://tinyurl.com/6sj9cp3

I've visited the area in question many times (Elbow Lake, Minnesota)
in the summer and have routinely seen a fair number of honeybees and 
lot of bumblebees visiting the flowers that border the monocultures of corn and soybeans:

Close up view of bumblebees nectaring:
http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/2beesb.jpg

Landscape view:
http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae78/18R-C/2beesa.jpg

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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