http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=869&catID=4
End of the British honeybee? [image: End of the British honeybee?]

Monday December 22nd 2008

Honeybees could disappear completely from Britain in 10 years, causing
economic and environmental damage on a vast scale, according to the British
Beekeepers Association. There is no solution to the combined culprits – a
variety of bee parasite called the varroa mite and a disease known as colony
collapse disorder. Beekeeper *Judy Heal* has been petitioning the government
to fund better research



http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1003103?UserKey=
Fears Scotland's bee population faces being wiped out Calls for research
into disease

By Cameron Brooks

Published: 24/12/2008

SCOTS honey supplies could dry up unless urgent action is taken to safeguard
bees, a north-east MSP has warned.

Tory Nanette Milne called on the Scottish Government to change its attitude
to- wards bee health as over 25% of domestic insects have been killed by
diseases such as the varroa des- tructor mite over the last two years.

Despite the bee industry contributing over £165million a year through
cross-pollination to the domestic agricultural output, the UK Government has
yet to license alternative treatments used widely throughout the European
Union.


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