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Honeybee Killer Found

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Scientists and Army find culprit of mass die off.

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What’s been killing all the honeybees? It took an unusual partnership between the Army and entomologists to find out. In the last four years, between 20 and 40 percent of honeybee colonies have collapsed, baffling scientists who couldn’t find a culprit.

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