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Honeybees in the US are in trouble

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By admin
Published September 23, 2014 at 2:15 PM CDT

Honeybees in the US are in trouble. The population has been declining for years, but a long, cold winter put another huge dent in the number of hives in northwestern Illinois and eastern Iowa. On today's WVIK News Focus, in the first of a two-part series, Michelle O'Neill talks with three beekeepers, including Phil Crandall at Crandall Farms in Coal Valley.
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USDA Senior Entemologist David Epstein, Dave Irvin from Eastern Iowa Beekeepers, and Beekeeper Phil Crandall, on today's WVIK News Focus. In the second part tomorrow, why honeybees aren't thriving and what's being done about it.