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Disease, weather kill Vancouver Island bees
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March 9, 2010. Vancouver Island beekeepers say 90 per cent of their hives have been wiped out by a lethal combination of disease and a long summer last year. Vancouver Island is home to a quarter of all the honeybees in British Columbia, but commercial operations were devastated over the winter by a high mortality rate for honeybees. Scientists believe the mass die-off was caused by several factors, including the varroa mite, which makes bees susceptible to other viruses. A long summer also meant bees continued collecting pollen for a much longer time, which weakened them and make them more vulnerable over the winter.
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Source: CBC
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