Britain Honeybees maybe wiped out in 10 years

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/20/eabees120.xml

Honeybees may be wiped out in 10 years

By Jasper Copping
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 20/01/2008

Honeybees will die out in Britain within a decade as virulent diseases and parasites spread through the nation's hives, experts have warned.

Whole colonies of bees are already being wiped out, with current methods of pest control unable to stop the problem.

Honeybees may be wiped out in 10 years
Disease is killing off Britain’s honeybees

The British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) said that if the crisis continued, honeybees would disappear completely from Britain by 2018, causing "calamitous" economic and environmental problems.

It called on the Government to restart shelved research programmes and to fund new ones to try to save the insects.

Tim Lovett, the association's president, said: "The situation has become insupportable and the Government is unwilling to take steps to avoid disaster.
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From a great article from one of the DUERS on GD Wheresmypart thanks I was wondering if anything was being done
I see nothing is being done by the government

I'm glad somebody finally found out what was killing them. The MSM stupidity reported there was a problem, but I never heard what was causing it. You can't beat something if you don't know what it is. Alarm bells were going off in my head. I kept hearing that part from "Red Planet" were they said the frogs died first. I have a bad feeling we are going to get some hard lessons soon.