Free the bees.

• Position: Stateline - Brief Article

Bees are in trouble in America. In the 1980s, wild bees were devastated by an invading parasite, the varroa, or vampire mite. Now, along with varroa, pesticides and predator birds are devastating the insects needed to pollinate 90 or so crops. "For the first time in our history [pollination] is a limiting factor in crop production," Keith Delaplane, professor of entomology at the University of Georgia, told the Christian Science Monitor. U.S. farmers now rely on commercial bee colonies, but there...