Animal Die-off — Worldwide/Unknown
A top university expert urges beekeepers to start removing their hives from almond orchards earlier to avoid die-offs like a massive one that occurred at the end of almond bloom this year [2014].
Many California beekeepers — particularly in the southern San Joaquin Valley — lost both adult bees and broods after a mixture of fungicides used by almond growers and insecticides applied to field crops proved harmful, said Eric Mussen, a University of California extension apiculturist
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