Bayer CropScience opens Bee Care Center in RTP
April 16, 2014
From: The Herald-Sun
Each year, the United States loses about a third of its honeybee population, said David R. Tarpy, an associate professor and extension beekeeper at N.C. State University.
And while beekeepers have been building the numbers back up, he said, it’s difficult for them to keep up at that pace of loss.
“The overall problem is that colonies are dying off at a greater rate than what is sustainable, and because we need them for pollinators, we need a sustainable honeybee population,” he said.
Responding to that threat, Bayer CropScience, a producer of pesticides, genetically modified seeds and traits for crops and other products, opened the $2.4 million North American Bayer Bee Care Center Tuesday. The company, which has its North American headquarters in the Research Triangle Park, is a division of Germany-based Bayer AG.
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