Honeybee Research Expanding Far Beyond Colony Collapse Disorder

Randall Weiseman July 10, 2012 Alabama, Field Crops, Florida, General, Georgia, Nursery Crops, Specialty Crops, Vegetables

For the last several years any talks of honeybees has been quickly followed by discussions of colony collapse disorder, USDA entomologist Bart Smith says that while discovering the cause and hopefully the solution for colony collapse disorder is an extremely important issue, it actually isn’t the only one concerning the industry.

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