USDA: Louisiana’s bees are on the rebound
May 1, 2015
From: New Orleans City Business
ALEXANDRIA — There are some good signs indicating that Louisiana’s bee population is rebounding, according to federal bee experts.
The Daily Town Talk reports that a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture report on honey shows production is up.
The USDA reports production is up 19 percent year over year — a good sign after lengthy periods of decline in honeybee colonies. The number of managed colonies has been slashed in half since a peak in the 1940s, according to the USDA, due to predatory pests and diseases that have ravaged the non-native insects.
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