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A dark clowd decents upon the beekeeping industry, but this isn't a new swarm blocking out the sun as they search out a new home, this is death and absence.

The results from the NJ beekeepers winter loss survey indicates the death rate has doubled during the winter of 2008 when compared to the winter of 2007.

The Death toll rises in the EU. Pesident of Apimondia, Gilles Ratia states "with this level of mortality, European beekeepers can only survive another 8 to 10 years."

Death knell sounds for Europe's beekeepers

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http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/Death+knell+sounds+Europe+beekeepers/1538337/story.html

It states losses reached 50% in Slovenia and as high as 80% in southwest Germany.