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Tangerine growers tell beekeepers to buzz off http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1231514944
Is it trespassing when bees do what bees do in California's tangerine groves?
That is the question being weighed by state agriculture officials caught between beekeepers who prize orange blossom honey and citrus growers who blame the bees for causing otherwise seedless mandarin oranges to develop pips.... Beekeepers say that, with development in the state's agricultural regions, there already are a limited number of places to take the bees for feeding.
"Our winter losses are increasing (because of colony collapse), and part of the problem is finding places to put bees where they have access to natural food, and citrus is part of that," said Gene Brandi, a Los Banos beekeeper and legislative liaison for the California State Beekeepers Association. [thanks, Janet!]
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Larry says: "Next, the tangerine growers will be spraying neonicotinoids on their blossoms to kill off the bees."
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This is somehow like that orange-burning scene in "The Pips of Wrath."
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