You may have read these articles already or received them via email from beekeeping newsgroups.Just in case you didn't here are links to the stories and information behind the latest research information available regarding Colony Collapse Disorder that were released last week.
This post is more for a historical record for this journal. I found it very useful to read both the scientific report and the news reports.
Here is a link for a story in NPR referencing the study:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/07/130397460/military-and-scientists-find-new-suspects-in-dying-beehives
Here is a link for a story in the New York Times referencing the study. This one is not so scientific in description and gives interesting background info.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html?_r=1
This is the research paper on the discovery:
http://www.plosone.org/home.action
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Follow the money!!!!
What a scientist didn't tell the New York Times about his study on bee deaths
What the Times article did not explore -- nor did the study disclose -- was the relationship between the study's lead author, Montana bee researcher Dr. Jerry Bromenshenk, and Bayer Crop Science. In recent years Bromenshenk has received a significant research grant from Bayer to study bee pollination. Indeed, before receiving the Bayer funding, Bromenshenk was lined up on the opposite side: He had signed on to serve as an expert witness for beekeepers who brought a class-action lawsuit against Bayer in 2003. He then dropped out and received the grant.
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