Is there a Bee Crisis?

[EthanLeeVita]

NYC Health Officials Decide to Allow Beekeeping
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
By Staff, Associated Press

New York (AP) - Beekeepers in New York City no longer have to keep the honey of their labors a secret.

The city's Board of Health decided Tuesday to allow beekeeping in the city after a long ban.

Some New Yorkers have secretly tended beehives on rooftops and in backyard gardens for years in defiance of city regulations.

The health code had placed honeybees in the same category as other creatures that are deemed too dangerous or venomous for city life, including hyenas and venomous snakes.

GOOD! I remember reading an article in one of the beekeeper magazines where they interviewed several of the secret beekeepers a few months back.

[toowm]

Freakonomics blog on the bee crisis and environmentalism

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/whats-behind-the-honeybee-decline-perhaps-not-what-youve-heard