Help for healthy hives

摘要

For more than a decade, the news about honey bees has been "doom and gloom." Pesticides, parasites, environmental changes and other stressors have combined to decrease bee populations worldwide, and media reports offered little if any hope.For Boris Baer, a professor of entomology at the University of California, Riverside, it's been frustrating to watch, because he thinks the tide is turning. Researchers spent years figuring out what ails the honey bee, and they're ready to focus on management tools."We've done our homework over the last decade, and now we can start to think about solutions," he said. "It's an exciting time."