<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3020" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV><SPAN class=879043218-02032007><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>The
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) morning radio show "The Current"
featured a segment on Colony Collapse Disorder today, Friday, March 2nd. You can
hear the segment (Part 1 of the show) at <A
href="http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2007/200703/20070302.html">www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2007/200703/20070302.html</A>.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=879043218-02032007><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=879043218-02032007><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Here is the
CBC synopsis of the segment:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=879043218-02032007><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=879043218-02032007><STRONG>Honey Bee Crisis </STRONG>
<P>We started this segment with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the
Bumblebee." The frantic pace of his score was meant to replicate a bee's
hyper-kinetic aerial acrobatics. </P>
<P>Bees have long been associated with diligence and industriousness. And even
though it's not native to North America, both Canada and the United States rely
on honeybees to keep our agricultural sectors afloat, by pollinating everything
from apples and oranges to almonds and cranberries. </P>
<P>But lately, U.S. honeybees are either disappearing or dying off at an
alarming rate. Some beekeepers have lost up to 70% of their hives. David
Bradshaw has witnessed the problem first-hand. He's a beekeeper in Fresno,
California. </P>
<P>Besides being hard workers, honey bees have also built an incredibly complex
social infrastructure. Mark Winston teaches biology at Simon Fraser University.
We heard from him with what he sees when he looks at a bee hive.</P>
<P><BR><STRONG>Bees - US Expert </STRONG></P>
<P>Beekeepers in the United States have a name for this problem, "Colony
Collapse Disorder." But what they don't know is why it's happening. </P>
<P>Dennis van Englesdorp is the State Apiarist -- or beekeeper -- with the
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. He's also a member of a working group of
experts trying to figure out what's causing the problem ... and what to do about
it. Dennis van Englesdorp was in Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania. </P>
<P><BR><STRONG>Bees – Canada </STRONG></P>
<P>To better understand how "Colony Collapse Disorder" might affect Canadian
bees and beekeepers, we were joined by Alison Skinner. She is the Technology
Transfer Specialist with the Ontario Beekeeper's Association and she was on the
phone from her office in Guelph, Ontario. </P></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>