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Hive remedy has beekeepers abuzz
By Susan Salisbury
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 6:48 p.m. Friday, Dec. 24, 2010
Posted: 6:37 p.m. Friday, Dec. 24, 2010
Beekeepers are being offered hope for their ailing honeybee hives in the form of an advanced new product released this month by a South Florida-based biotechnology company.
The technology could have wider implications for all of agriculture as a nonchemical way to combat pests and disease.
Beekeepers have been losing about a third of their hives each year since 2006, when Florida beekeeper Dave Hackenberg first reported a phenomenon that came to be called colony collapse disorder. CCD is not a disease, but is a syndrome characterized by the inexplicable loss of worker bees in managed honeybee colonies.
Although it is not a "cure" for CCD, Remebee, a product developed by Miami-based Beeologics, has been shown in scientific trials to protect bees from a virulent virus called Israeli acute paralysis virus, or IAPV, Beeologic CEO Eyal Ben-Chanoch said...
Hive remedy has beekeepers abuzz
By Susan Salisbury
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 6:48 p.m. Friday, Dec. 24, 2010
Posted: 6:37 p.m. Friday, Dec. 24, 2010
Beekeepers are being offered hope for their ailing honeybee hives in the form of an advanced new product released this month by a South Florida-based biotechnology company.
The technology could have wider implications for all of agriculture as a nonchemical way to combat pests and disease.
Beekeepers have been losing about a third of their hives each year since 2006, when Florida beekeeper Dave Hackenberg first reported a phenomenon that came to be called colony collapse disorder. CCD is not a disease, but is a syndrome characterized by the inexplicable loss of worker bees in managed honeybee colonies.
Although it is not a "cure" for CCD, Remebee, a product developed by Miami-based Beeologics, has been shown in scientific trials to protect bees from a virulent virus called Israeli acute paralysis virus, or IAPV, Beeologic CEO Eyal Ben-Chanoch said...