[Pollinator] Haagen-Dazs 100k to Research Pop Decline

[Bumblebees]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331532,00.html

DAVIS, Calif. —  Ice cream maker Haagen-Dazs is donating $100,000 to  
the University of California, Davis, to research an alarming decline  
in the bee population.

The money will go for research on "sustainable pollination" and the  
phenomenon known as colony collapse, a disorder in which bees abandon  
their hives.

About 40 percent of Haagen-Dazs ice cream flavors are linked to fruit  
and nut trees pollinated by bees. The company also is launching a  
national campaign to create awareness of the honeybee's plight.

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A third of the U.S. food supply depends on bee pollination, but bees  
are vanishing in massive numbers, said Walter Leal, chairman of the  
UC Davis Department of Entomology.

The university is home to one of the oldest bee research facilities  
in the country.



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