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	<title>pollinatethis.org Beekeeper's Blog</title>
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	<description>&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; A tale of a beekeeper to be in the time of "CCD"</description>
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		<title>Insecticide implicated in bee decline</title>
		<link>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2010/09/07/insecticide-implicated-in-bee-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More evidence. I&#8217;m happy to elevate these articles to higher readership. -DNR

http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/43568 

Aug 27, 2010
Insecticide implicated in bee decline
Honeybees, bumblebees and many other insects are being slowly poisoned to death by persistent insecticides used to protect agricultural crops. Small doses of the toxic chemicals accumulate over time, meaning that there is no safe level of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help researchers understand CCD - beekeepers, fill out the USDA survey</title>
		<link>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2010/04/09/help-researchers-understand-ccd-beekeepers-fill-out-the-usda-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 30, 2010 -The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)  Agricultural Research Service, in conjunction with the Apiary  Inspectors of America, is conducting a voluntary survey to determine  the bee colony losses for the 2009/2010 winter.  This survey is not  just for beekeepers with huge numbers of hives, even small-scale  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA, Bayer CropScience Caught - NY Judge Bans &#8216;Movento&#8217; to Protect Pollinators, Children</title>
		<link>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2010/02/19/epa-bayer-cropscience-caught-ny-judge-bans-movento-to-protect-pollinators-children/</link>
		<comments>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2010/02/19/epa-bayer-cropscience-caught-ny-judge-bans-movento-to-protect-pollinators-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
What would Rachel Carson say to this story? The business publications are an echo-chamber of headlines reading &#8220;procedural issues&#8221; were what made spirotetramat illegal to sell, while other blogs and newspapers focus of the press release&#8217;s spin (harm to bees). The monopoly market publications would like to tell their readers/advertisers that it wasn&#8217;t banned because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific Report on Bee Mortality and Bee Surveillance in Europe</title>
		<link>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2010/01/31/scientific-report-on-bee-mortality-and-bee-surveillance-in-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2010/01/31/scientific-report-on-bee-mortality-and-bee-surveillance-in-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report on Bee Mortality and Bee Surveillance in Europe
from http://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/online/default.asp?Date=12/18/2009 
AFSSA, the French Food Safety Agency completed a 218-page report on honey bee mortality and the ways that colony losses are monitored in Europe, December 8, 2009. The European Food Safety Authority commissioned the study and published the report. Initially, AFSSA set up a consortium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotdogs, Baseball &#038; Poison: A public massacre of bees, the dumbing of a nation</title>
		<link>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/07/04/hotdogs-baseball-poison-a-public-massacre-of-bees-the-dumbing-of-a-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/07/04/hotdogs-baseball-poison-a-public-massacre-of-bees-the-dumbing-of-a-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beekeeper: No need to kill bees for the Padres
Removing bees live is less dangerous than trying to kill them, a professional beekeeper writes.

By Geoff Kipps-Bolton, SDNN
Friday, July 3, 2009 		11 comments  &#124;  read comments  &#124;  post a comment
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		<title>How is USDA spending $4.1 million in honey bee research money?</title>
		<link>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/06/17/how-is-usda-spending-41-million-in-honey-bee-research-money/</link>
		<comments>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/06/17/how-is-usda-spending-41-million-in-honey-bee-research-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Flottum found out for us (thaaaaaank youuu!)
 			June 16, 2009 at 9:00AM
by Kim Flottum

A year ago USDA CSREES (Cooperative State Research Extension Education Service) awarded a $4.1 million grant to a group of university researchers for the express purpose of solving the current honey bee health problems confronting the beekeeping industry. Without actually nailing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nosema ceranae genome sequenced</title>
		<link>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/06/05/nosema-ceranae-genome-sequenced/</link>
		<comments>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/06/05/nosema-ceranae-genome-sequenced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public release date: 4-Jun-2009
Contact: Dennis O&#8217;Brien
dennis.obrien@ars.usda.gov
301-504-1624
Public Library of Science
Bee-killing parasite genome sequenced
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have sequenced the genome of a parasite that can kill honey bees.  Nosema ceranae is one of many pathogens suspected of contributing to the current bee population decline, termed colony collapse disorder (CCD). Researchers describe the parasite&#8217;s genome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Honeybee Advisory Board asks EPA to ban imidacloprid</title>
		<link>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/05/24/us-honeybee-advisory-board-asks-epa-to-ban-imidacloprid/</link>
		<comments>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/05/24/us-honeybee-advisory-board-asks-epa-to-ban-imidacloprid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 16:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Pesticides indicted in bee deaths
Agriculture officials have renewed their scrutiny of the world&#8217;s best-selling pest-killer as they try to solve the mysterious collapse of the nation&#8217;s hives.
By Julia Scott
Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/05/18/bees_pesticides/ 
May 18, 2009 - Gene Brandi will always rue the summer of 2007. That&#8217;s when the California beekeeper rented half his honeybees, or 1,000 hives, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xerces Society Says Call Congress Today to Support Pollinator Research in Farm Bill</title>
		<link>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/05/05/xerces-society-says-call-congress-today-to-support-pollinator-research-in-farm-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/05/05/xerces-society-says-call-congress-today-to-support-pollinator-research-in-farm-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YOUR HELP IS NEEDED TO SECURE FARM BILL FUNDING
 FOR NATIVE AND MANAGED POLLINATOR RESEARCH 
Please contact your Senators and ask them to sign on to a letter by Senator Boxer in support of vital research on agricultural pollinators. Please read below for additional information. The deadline for  Senators to sign on to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super instructable gardening blog gets pollinatethis &#8216;great job&#8217; scratch-n-sniff sticker</title>
		<link>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/05/02/super-instructable-gardening-blog-gets-pollinatethis-great-job-scratch-n-sniff-sticker/</link>
		<comments>http://pollinatethis.org/beeblog/2009/05/02/super-instructable-gardening-blog-gets-pollinatethis-great-job-scratch-n-sniff-sticker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 14:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok. I&#8217;m finally done laughing at my headline.  I came across the GrowBetterVeggies gardening blog while looking for bulbing fennel advice. Turns out to be a gardening resource worth pollinating! Not only does she prep her tomato  transplant holes with fish heads, she&#8217;s got a beekeeping class. There&#8217;s a lot more: compost-heated greenhouse [...]]]></description>
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