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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/24/AR2011012406251.html" eudora="autourl">

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/24/AR2011012406251.html</a>

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<h1><b>New research on honeybee

illness</b></h1>

<img src="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2011/01/24/PH2011012406253.jpg" width=350 height=233 alt="Colin Henderson studied squirrels, mice and hares before decidi">

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Colin Henderson studied squirrels, mice and hares before deciding to

focus on honeybees. (Todd Goodrich)<br><br>

<i>Ecologist</i>

<a href="http://www.cte.umt.edu/directory/dirinfo.aspx?id=1045"><i>Colin

Henderson</a></i> co-authored

<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013181">

a study</a> that may have identified the cause of the honeybee illness

that has plagued U.S. bees since 2006. Henderson, 59, is an associate

professor of biology at the University of Montana. He and colleagues

there found a correlation between

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/31/AR2007053102355.html">

colony collapse disorder</a>

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/14/AR2010031402600.html">

(CCD)</a> and

<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101007183018.htm">a

lethal combination of a parasite and a virus</a>. <br><br>

See the link for the rest of the article. <br>

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