Time flies by and next thing you know, so are a bunch of healthy honeybees. The Christian Science Monitor’s brings an encouraging word today on the colony collapse disorder that nearly panicked some farmers and many bee keepers last year. While its precise cause remains to be determined, one thing is clear. This year’s impact was far lower thanks in part at least, it says here, to import of foreign stocks and good weather. An underlying theme is the persistence of risks inherent in relying so heavily on one species to pollinate crops.

Pic: bee in almond blossom. Info of little consequence dept: Ever talk to an old-time California almond farmer? It’ll be AM-enz he or she grows, not ALL-munds. Dunno why those good folks out in the San Joaquin valley say it that way.

-CP

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