I’ve been reading about beekeeping problems lately, but nobody has produced such a detailed personal account (HCN, 3/19/07). I live in avocado country in San Diego, Calif., and ride the area on my motorcycle often. I can see far fewer bees working, and there are far fewer on my windshield (always sad). Now we hear about colony collapse disorder and cell phones causing the problems. I don’t know what to believe. I hope Hannah Nordhaus will keep up her work and keep us informed about new study results.

Frank Laird
San Diego, California

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Keep up with the buzz

by Frank Laird, High Country News
May 14, 2007

<h1>Keep up with the buzz</h1> <p class="byline">by Frank Laird, High Country News <br />May 14, 2007</p> <p> I’ve been reading about beekeeping<br /> problems lately, but nobody has produced such a detailed personal<br /> account (HCN, 3/19/07). I live in avocado country in San Diego,<br /> Calif., and ride the area on my motorcycle often. I can see far<br /> fewer bees working, and there are far fewer on my windshield<br /> (always sad). Now we hear about colony collapse disorder and cell<br /> phones causing the problems. I don’t know what to believe. I<br /> hope Hannah Nordhaus will keep up her work and keep us informed<br /> about new study results. </p> <p><b>Frank Laird<br /> San Diego, California</b></p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=189122">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Keep up with the buzz</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-346/keep-up-with-the-buzz/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=112909&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-346/keep-up-with-the-buzz/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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