Idaho beekeepers could soon have another tool to use in their battle to control varroa mites, honeybee parasites that have been linked to colony collapse disorder and can devastate hives.
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Idaho's beekeepers are backing a so-called "funny honey" bill designed to protect the industry from adulterated and mislabeled honey products.
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Maybe someone should get Multnomah County (Ore.) Commissioner Jeff Cogen and his staff a subscription to the Capital Press. On Cogen's chief of staff, Marissa Madrigal's blog this morning she has a post about the threat Colony Collapse Disorder posed to America's honeybee population and the crops they pollinate. She learned about the potentially significan impact of the threat while watching PBS's Nature series on TV.
The mysterious affliction plaguing bees has been covered extensively in the Capital Press and on capitalpress.com, including this most recent story about the upcoming convention this weekend of beekeepers in Oregon. It seems hardly a week goes by without something about the issue appearing in at least one of our four editions.
But covering the issues of bee health are nothing new to Capital Press. On my desk is a mounted version of the Capital Press from Oct. 26, 1984, and on the front page stories has the headline, "Mites pose bee threat."
Now that PBS is on the story, maybe people outside of agriculture are starting to catch on and pay some attention.
Note: This post has been updated to correct who wrote the blog post on Commissioner Cogen's staff.
