http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070224/news_1b24bees.html
One factor likely contributing to the bees' ill health is the bee industry's increasing mobility...
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long-distance hauling stresses the bees, killing some and leaving the survivors weak and open to infection.
In the pasture near Oakdale, Woodworth [a beekeeper from Halliday , N.D. , who has trucked his 3,700 hives to California this year] kicked at a long pile of bee carcasses. The night before, his crew had unwrapped a tarp from a just-arrived trailer stacked with his wooden hive boxes, and dead bees sifted to the ground.
“A truckload situation like that is real unnatural for bees,” Woodworth said. “The cold weather really stresses 'em.”
Another thing that's unnatural is for bees to be active at this time of year at all. If Woodworth's bees weren't under contract to pollinate 28 almond orchards they would be huddled together in their hives, waiting out the winter.
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