City Club Missoula - University of Montana scientist, Scott Debnam, shares stories of Rumsfeld phone calls, possible reasons for bee colony collapse
| July 22, 2008 |  View for printing |
Researchers at the University of Montana have trained honeybees to safely locate land mines, but were banned from field-testing the bees' prowess overseas by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Senior field researcher Scott Debnam, part of UM's increasingly famous bee project, blew through a long list of fascinating facts about honeybees - and revealed a possible cause for Colony Collapse Disorder just discovered at UM a week ago - during his City Club Missoula http://www.cityclubmissoula.org presentation Monday.
But he stopped the crowd in its tracks when he revealed the Rumsfeld-initiated roadblock.
Bee Alert: http://beealert.blackfoot.net/~beealert/index.php
By BILL SCHWANKE of the Missoulian
Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2008/ ... /news05.txt
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