The Cooperative Launches Plan Bee to Help Save UK's Honeybee

Published Feb. 16, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
The Cooperative The causes of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) are still in question. While it's surely a combination of factors including climate change and voracious pests like the varoa mite, one of the key suspects is pesticides. Late last year UK farmers demonstrated to demand government action on CCD. While the government may be slow in responding The Cooperative, the UK's largest consumer co-op, has announced Plan Bee, "a campaign to raise awareness about the decline in the British honeybee population," including a t


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