Bromenshenk goes on to say the other symptom they found was the cluster would not feed themselves, even when there was plenty of food present or introduced. It was the 54th annual Beekeepers Field Day Friday and the discussions centred around the problems apiarists face trying to keep their hives and colonies healthy and productive. Honey bees have always faced threats and perils from the natural world such as nosema, viruses, fungi, varroa mites, predatory wax moths and hive beetles. Many...

The floodwall's freeboard, an extra 3 feet of wall above the river's crest in 1936, was what saved the city as the Susquehanna crested at nearly 35 feet, just inches below the top of the wall. Milton, with no flood protection system, was the hardest-hit community, and P. The storm caused more than $12 billion in damage, $59 billion in today's dollars, making it the costliest natural disaster until that time. AP content may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The storm...

The money funds orange juice and other citrus advertising and research on crop management. The department proposed the highest levels in at least a decade to step up those efforts in an industry beset by fruit disease, storms and drought. The per-box tax rate for grapefruit, both fresh and processed, remained unchanged from last year at 35 cents. The song popularly known as Swanee River is a famous tune, but it's been criticized for its allusions to plantation life that some believe are racist.

Growers discuss steps to better protect their citrus crops from this fatal bacterial disease. That's the major message that came out of Thursday morning's seminars on greening, a fatal citrus bacterial disease, at the 2007 Florida Citrus Industry Annual Conference sponsored by Lakeland-based Florida Citrus Mutual, the state's largest growers representative. That's the major message that came out of Thursday morning's seminars on greening, a fatal citrus bacterial disease, at the 2007...

TARAPOTO, Peru -- Brown, denuded hillsides dot the landscape, cleared by poor farmers to grow coca or food crops where dense jungle once stood in subtropical north-central Peru. These calls come amid the release of an annual report published last month by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization showing that from 2000 to 2005, the rate of destruction of forest in Latin America and the Caribbean had risen to 0.51 percent of overall land, up from 0.46 percent during the 1990s....