http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13226733

Interesting article about almond pollination, and the "the nutrition and
disease theory" about CCD.

"Though the idea that there is a broader and costly pollination crisis under
way is entrenched (the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation is
spending $28m on a report investigating it), the true picture is cloudier.
In 2006 America’s National Academy of Sciences released a report on the
status of pollinators in North America that concluded “for most North
American pollinator species, long-term population data are lacking and
knowledge of their basic ecology is incomplete.” Simply put, nobody knows.
As for the managed bees of America, Dr Ratnieks says that “the imminent
death of the honeybee has been reported so many times, but it has not
happened and is not likely to do so”."

It would be interesting to hear reactions to this story.

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