<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/147031f1-5a90-48b1-9f02-42f905b0c8e0/9D6D4B0E-DD61-4CF5-91A2-85D4D7E679A9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.php?langue=an&id_article=2783&id_theme=14&prov=index" href="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.php?langue=an&id_article=2783&id_theme=14&prov=index" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cite-sciences.fr</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.php?langue=an&id_article=2783&id_theme=14&prov=index"><TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD width="556"><P class="contenu"><SPAN class="txttitreR">What would happen if bees disappeared?<BR /></SPAN></P></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD><P class="contenu"><B>Probing beyond the controversies surrounding certain insecticides (the pulling off the market of the BASF firm’s Regent and of Bayer’s Gaucho), Science Actualités has delved into what is really going on in the world of bees by talking to experts and beekeepers.</B><BR /></P></TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="2"><IMG height="15" src="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/img/spacer.gif" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><DIV class="p_paragraphe"><A name="p9951"></A><P class="sstitarticle">What happens when bees stop making honey…</P></DIV><DIV class="p_paragraphe"><TABLE width="568" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="top"><DIV class="gauche"><DIV><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><IMG width="5" height="5" border="0" src="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/img/dossier/c1_rouge.gif" /></TD><TD><IMG width="151" height="5" border="0" src="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/img/dossier/img_top_rouge.gif" /></TD><TD><IMG width="5" height="5" border="0" src="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/img/dossier/c2_rouge.gif" /></TD></TR><TR><TD><IMG width="5" height="120" border="0" src="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/img/dossier/img_left_rouge.gif" /></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff"><IMG width="151" height="120" border="0" src="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/../media/1/8270/QACTU_IMG_PREVIEW.jpg" /></TD><TD><IMG width="5" height="120" border="0" src="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/img/dossier/img_right_rouge.gif" /></TD></TR><TR><TD><IMG width="5" height="5" border="0" src="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/img/dossier/c3_rouge.gif" /></TD><TD><IMG width="151" height="5" border="0" src="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/img/dossier/img_bas_rouge.gif" /></TD><TD><IMG width="5" height="5" border="0" src="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/img/dossier/c4_rouge.gif" /></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD class="rouge"><TABLE border="0" class="rouge"><TBODY><TR><TD><FONT color="#ffffff" class="txt9"><FONT color="#000000">© Inra</FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></DIV></TD><TD valign="top"><A name="p9551"></A><DIV class="txtnoir"><P>The history of bees runs parallel to that of mankind. Since the dawn of humanity, man has prized honey. Today, this nectar has become rare, because the bees are not well. <BR /><DIV>In France over the past thirty years, the bee population has been diminishing and becoming increasingly fragile. The blame can be placed squarely on man’s shoulders: the industrial exploitation of nature, the excessive addition of chemicals to produce better quality honey in greater quantities. The quest for more has backfired.</DIV></P></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9D6D4B0E-DD61-4CF5-91A2-85D4D7E679A9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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