Friday, November 20, 2009 East Central Illinois

Activities aim for education on importance of area's bees

By Tim Mitchell
Saturday, June 21, 2008 8:14 AM CDT

URBANA – You might want to think twice before you swat that honey bee buzzing around your backyard.

Adult honey bees have been disappearing on a massive scale due to a mysterious phonomenon called colony collapse disorder, according to May Berenbaum, head of the University of Illinois entomology department.

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