If you are familiar with my column you would know that I have been quite vocal about the overblown media coverage on the Great Honeybee Loss of 06/07. Seems now the media is also waking up.

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What does Orson Welles and the Great Honeybee Loss of 06/07 have in Common?

Now that some time has passed from the initial honeybee loss hysteria lets look at some of the facts.

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A different perspective on the honeybee situation this time in Maine. "Every spring, beekeeper Tony Bachelder loads up a truck with dozens of his honeybee hives and heads to Massachusetts to pollinate apple orchards. He doesn't like the drive.

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This report was just released today by the main group of scientists looking at the CCD phenomenon.

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DEBUNKING A NEW MYTH Mobile Phones and Dying Bees Now even Der Spiegel is "offended" by the trumped up story of cell phones causing losses in honeybees.

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Honey Bee - Cell Phone Study is Questionable at Best

What follows is a review by a very knowledgable beekeeper of the study behind the recent honeybee cellphone news story which ran in the UK last weekend.

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Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible cause.

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