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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-22-07 10:27 AM
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Vanishing honeybees mystify scientists
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Vanishing honeybees mystify scientists

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Go to work, come home. Go to work, come home. Go to work -- and vanish without a trace.

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SMALL WORKERS IN A SUPERSIZE SOCIETY

The problem has prompted a congressional hearing, a report by the National Research Council and a National Pollinator Week set for June 24-30 in Washington, but so far no clear idea of what is causing it.

"The main hypotheses are based on the interpretation that the disappearances represent disruptions in orientation behavior and navigation," said May Berenbaum, an insect ecologist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

There have been other fluctuations in the number of honeybees, going back to the 1880s, where there were "mysterious disappearances without bodies just as we're seeing now, but never at this magnitude," Berenbaum said in a telephone interview.

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