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 For Angelenos, bees are more often than not encountered as sugar-drunk spastics outside of a neighborhood recycling center, sippers of sweet nectar from your garden's flowers, or a stinging source of outdoor anguish . But there's actually a nationwide "bee crisis" that pertains specifically to honey bees and their unexpected decline, and now what's been a problem for farmers is getting passed on to the consumers in the form of higher food prices . To put it plainly, as one grower is quoted in an AP article published today in the Daily Breeze : "No bees, no crops." Bees pitch in a share of the labor when it comes to tending crops--their unique job is to pollinate, like they do north from here in places like Modesto among the almond blossoms in spring. What crops benefit from bee labor? According to an AP report last year published on MSNBC.com , "Among them: apples, nuts, avocados, soybeans, asparagus, broccoli, celery, squash and cucumbers. And lots of the really sweet and tart stuff, too, including citrus fruit, peaches, kiwi, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, cantaloupe and other melons." In fact, they do their duty for "90 of the tastiest flowering crops we have." But as CBS News reported earlier this year, the bee population isn't just dwindling, it's plain dying out. It's called "colony collapse disorder" and is attributed to a potential mix of causes, from malnutrition to disease to pesticides. Consumers, al ... |
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