[Pollinator] FW: Listen online: CCD piece on the radio

[R. Thomas Van Arsdall]

This is an interesting radio piece.  I think he did an excellent job on CCD.


We need to get more people talking like this about native pollinators and
their importance in ag and healthy ecosystems, too!

I've moved the links Mr. Hoffman provided to the CCD piece up to here:

Real Audio:
http://www.wamu.org/audio/mc/07/04/m1070406-14772.ram 
Windows Media Player:
http://www.wamu.org/audio/mc/07/04/m1070406-14772.asx 

Here is a previous piece on beekeeping broadcast in January 2007,
about 11 minutes:
Real Audio:
http://www.wamu.org/audio/mc/07/01/m1070119-13054.ram 
Windows Media Player:
http://www.wamu.org/audio/mc/07/01/m1070119-13054.asx 

The homepage for the show is
http://wamu.org/programs/mc 

Bee Ready for National Pollinator Week, June 24-30, 2007! For more info:
www.pollinator.org 
 
R. Thomas (Tom) Van Arsdall, Public Affairs Representative for Coevolution
Institute/NAPPC
   Van Arsdall & Associates
   13605 McLane Place
   Fredericksburg, VA  22407-2344
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   tom at vanarsdall.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: wildwoodflower at gmail.com [mailto:wildwoodflower at gmail.com] On Behalf
Of Marc Hoffman
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 12:38 AM
To: tom at vanarsdall.com
Subject: Listen online: CCD piece on the radio

Below is a link to listen to an 8 minute piece on Colony Collapse
Disorder. broadcast on Friday, April 6 on a radio magazine in the
Washington, DC area called Metro Connection, WAMU 88.5 FM.

Please let me know your reaction.  Is it accurate?  Effective?

Here is the description to the piece from WAMU's website:

Colony Collapse Disorder
One day you peer into the hive and all is well. On your next visit,
all that's left of a thriving colony are the queen and a handful of
bees around her. Last week, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on
Horticulture and Organic Agriculture had a hearing on the latest
threat to our pollinating bee population, "CCD," or Colony Collapse
Disorder. There's still a lot of mystery surrounding CCD, but area
beekeepers have been keeping a close watch on their hives. I met Marc
Hoffman with the Montgomery County Beekeepers Association at Brookside
Nature Center in Wheaton. Standing next to a group of hives run by the
Association, we talked about what "CCD" might mean for the region's
pollinators.


Marc Hoffman