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Where are the honeybees?
A beekeeper and an apiary expert from
Oregon
State
University
will give a talk Tuesday on “Pollinator Awareness and Colony
Collapse Disorder,” at
Columbia
Gorge
Community College,
Indian Creek Campus, room 310. The talk is free and open to the
public and starts at
5:30 p.m.
Dr. Ramesh Sagili of OSU’s Department of Horticulture will speak
about his research in honeybee health and nutrition with regard
to continued losses of pollinators nationally and locally. Local
beekeeper, Dave Wendell will be on hand to relate his work in
pollination.
Colony Collapse Disorder is characterized by abrupt,
inexplicable disappearance of honeybees from their colonies.
Eventually the number of affected individuals causes collapse of
the colony. This has a harmful effect on pollination of tree
fruit and vegetables. Sagili will discuss both honeybee — Apis
mellifera — and non-Apis bees and colony growth and how brood
pheromone plays a role in colony behavior. There is no clear
explanation explaining this phenomenon, first reported in 2006,
that continues to affect Apis mellifera colonies nationally.
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