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They provide billions in free services and they’ve been disappearing at a rate of more than 18 per cent each year. This year is the worst yet.
As in the US, many British beekeepers fear they are witnessing the start of an alarming phenomenon which is sweeping the US and Europe. Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is possibly the most serious disease yet faced by bees. Because bees pollinate millions of hectares of fruit trees and crops, the implications for agriculture are enormous.
The sudden unexplained loss of millions of bees in the Niagara region – up to 90 per cent in some commercial colonies – has prompted Ontario beekeepers to ask experts at the University of Guelph to investigate.
The most familiar plea made by environmentalists warning us of the immanent disappearance of this or that species is a question: how will we explain the absence of the polar bear, or the manatee, or a certain species of eagle, to our children?
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