{"id":165,"date":"2007-05-20T04:34:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T11:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=165"},"modified":"2007-05-20T04:36:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T11:36:42","slug":"more-on-organic-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"More on organic bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img SRC=\"images\/bees_helleborex250.jpg\" ALIGN=\"right\" ALT=\"bees on hellebore\" \/>Colony collapse disorder (CCD) continues to get ink all over.  This morning, there was a <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2007\/5\/19\/17571\/6222\">recommended diary<\/a> on DailyKos pointing to <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/articles\/article_5194.cfm\">this article<\/a> in the Organic Consumer Association newsletter.  Shorter version:  Pushing for larger bees encourages varroa mites.  Conventional treatments for the mites and other stresses lead to collapse.<\/p>\n<p>In another story, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/wvutoday.wvu.edu\/news\/page\/5759\/\">WVU professor helps develop techniques to reduce threat against honeybees<\/a>, a West Virginia University apiculturist touts a program to bolster hives that includes lemongrass, spearmint, wintergreen and formic acid.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds refreshing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colony collapse disorder (CCD) continues to get ink all over. This morning, there was a recommended diary on DailyKos pointing to this article in the Organic Consumer Association newsletter. Shorter version: Pushing for larger bees encourages varroa mites. Conventional treatments for the mites and other stresses lead to collapse. In another story, WVU professor helps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More on organic bees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}