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By Jason Peck
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Honeybee hives are dying across the world. With no warning the honeybees vanish, leaving behind hives and ' unhatched eggs and the pollen they collected.
Virginia beekeepers are reporting die-offs in more than 40 percent of their hives, posing a potential threat to farmers in need of a good pollinator. But no one seems to know why.
“How many companies could stay in business losing 40 percent of their workforce?” asked Keith Tignor, the state apiarist. “Each hive could be looked at as mini-factory.”
They call it Colony Collapse Disorder. No one knows what causes it, or how it will impact the estimated $20 billion worth of crops that depend on honeybees.
“These are factors that are very hard to sit down with,” admitted Richard Fell, a professor of entomology at Virginia Tech. “There may be some slight increase in the price of apples, we might see an increase in honey.”
The issue has received much media attention, mixed with a little bit of fear.
And in the meantime hives continue to die.
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