bees

May 13, 2013

It’s estimated that one out of every three bites of food you take comes courtesy of honeybees. They pollinate many of the plants that humans and animals eat. 

David Hackenburg, a Pennsylvania beekeeper and president of a trade group called the Honey Bee Health Advisory Board, says he and other beekeepers across the country have seen significant declines in bee populations over the last decade. A new study in the scientific journal Nature links widespread bee deaths to the use of a crop pesticides called neonicotinoids since the 1990s, although other factors may be at work, too.

We hear Marylanders reaction to the death of Osama Bin Laden and get the scoop on a documentary about the disapearance of bees.