A nice "general update" for the novice

[efmesch]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/beekeepers-try-to-keep-bees--and-livelihoods--from-going-extinct/2015/08/08/d471d68a-1f70-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html

[apisbees]

This is so true.

“People ask me, ‘The bees are going to be extinct soon?’ ” said Ramesh Sagili, principal investigator at the Oregon State University Honey Bee Lab. “I’m not worried about bees being extinct here. I’m worried about beekeepers being extinct.”

It is the commercial beekeeper who is trucking his bees to do the pollination to support other farmers growing crops that require the pollination.
Good story well wrote. Thanks for posting.

[Les]

Good story, thanks for posting Ef.