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From the Ted Talk by Dennis vanEngelsdorp: A plea for bees

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We also have Dave Hackenberg, who is the peotsr child of CCD. He's the one who first identified this condition and raised the alarm bells. And he has a htirosy of these trucks, and he's moved these bees up and down the csaot. And a lot of people talk about trucks and mnivog bees, and that being bad, but we've done that for thousands of yaers. The ancient Egyptians used to move bees up and down the Nile on rafts, so this idea of a movable bee force is not new at all. And one of our real woeirrs with Colony csllapoe Disorder is the fact that it costs so much money to replace those dead-out cloineos. And you can do that one year in a row, you may be able to do it two years in a row. But if you're losing 50 percent to 80 percent of your colonies, you can't survive three years in a row. And we're really worried about losing this segmnet of our industry.

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We also have Dave Hackenberg, who is the ______ child of CCD. He's the one who first identified this condition and raised the alarm bells. And he has a _______ of these trucks, and he's moved these bees up and down the _____. And a lot of people talk about trucks and ______ bees, and that being bad, but we've done that for thousands of _____. The ancient Egyptians used to move bees up and down the Nile on rafts, so this idea of a movable bee force is not new at all. And one of our real _______ with Colony ________ Disorder is the fact that it costs so much money to replace those dead-out ________. And you can do that one year in a row, you may be able to do it two years in a row. But if you're losing 50 percent to 80 percent of your colonies, you can't survive three years in a row. And we're really worried about losing this _______ of our industry.

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  8. history
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Original Text


We also have Dave Hackenberg, who is the poster child of CCD. He's the one who first identified this condition and raised the alarm bells. And he has a history of these trucks, and he's moved these bees up and down the coast. And a lot of people talk about trucks and moving bees, and that being bad, but we've done that for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians used to move bees up and down the Nile on rafts, so this idea of a movable bee force is not new at all. And one of our real worries with Colony Collapse Disorder is the fact that it costs so much money to replace those dead-out colonies. And you can do that one year in a row, you may be able to do it two years in a row. But if you're losing 50 percent to 80 percent of your colonies, you can't survive three years in a row. And we're really worried about losing this segment of our industry.

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