http://www.agweek.com/articles/?id=4823&article_id=14539&property_id=41

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — She really doesn’t care whether they are Western,
Russian, Caucasian or Golden Italian honeybees. Their behavior is what
interests University of Minnesota bee researcher Marla Spivak. If they are
exceptional housekeepers, then she wants to be able to certify their queens
and put them to work breeding more like them in hives around the
country.Sound odd? Not in the least, when you consider the worker bees these
queens produce work hard to rid their colonies of disease and parasites —
all serious threats to bee colonies and considered by some experts to be
contributing to Colony Collapse Disorder, the mysterious anomaly that is
killing off colonies all over the world

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