>>>Van Engelsdorp, who is thirty-seven, has a bearish build, thinning blond hair, and deep-set blue eyes. He lives in the woods about thirty miles west of Harrisburg, in a one-room cabin with an unheated porch that he sleeps on year-round.<<<

Am I missing something here?  What does this portion of the quote have to do with CCD? The only tenuous connection these "facts" might have to beekeeping is that he, like a lot of other beekeepers on or off this list, has been stung in the head once too often.

Ad hoc committee for eliminating extraneous and excessively redundant quoting.

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