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  • March 15th 2011 Issue
  • Story by Richard Lehnert
  • New treatment against CCD

    Remebee works like a vaccine, administered in food.

    Remebee is easily administered—mixed into heavy bee syrup and fed in one feeding of one pint. Some beekeepers are trying the latest version, RemebeePro, this year. Photo courtesy of Eyal Ben-Chanoch Beekeepers—and the fruit growers who depend upon them for pollination ­services—may be seeing light at the end of the tunnel in their tribulations with Colony Collapse Disorder, which has been killing off a third of the nation’s ­beehives every winter for the last five years. This year, many beekeepers are participating in trials of a new treatment, based on Nobel-prize–winning technology developed with promise for human medicine. While it […]

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