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[00:00.10]	From VOA Learning English,
[00:01.75]	this is the Agriculture Report.
[00:05.13]	A decline in the number of honeybees
[00:08.23]	is a growing problem worldwide.
[00:11.26]	The decreasing bee population could contribute
[00:14.91]	to an increase in prices for crops
[00:17.74]	that depend on pollination by honeybees.
[00:21.29]	Researchers continue to study the decline
[00:24.22]	while beekeepers like Terrence Ingram
[00:27.62]	struggle to keep their bee colonies alive.
[00:31.05]	He says he loves being at the center of a swarm of bees.
[00:38.97]	"I love beekeeping. It's one of God's greatest miracles."
[00:44.01]	He has raised honeybees since 1954 in managed colonies
[00:49.59]	behind his house in rural Apple River, Illinois.
[00:54.27]	"We had 250 hives at one time.
[00:56.41]	We sold five, six tons of honey a year."
[00:59.97]	But that number is declining.
[01:02.31]	"Now we’re down to about probably four tons."
[01:05.25]	Not because the 73 year-old beekeeper is slowing down,
[01:09.59]	but because there are fewer bees producing honey.
[01:13.83]	He says the decline in his bee population began in 1996.
[01:20.05]	he blames that decline on the use of insecticides
[01:24.38]	and herbicides on the farmland surrounding his property.
[01:29.17]	"Every three weeks that summer,
[01:30.82]	they were spraying with the airplane,
[01:32.81]	and by the end of the year,
[01:34.35]	I didn't have any of my 250 hives left."
[01:36.49]	This caught the attention of researchers like Christian Krupke,
[01:41.54]	a professor at Purdue University who studies bees and other insects.
[01:47.52]	"There have been similar reports from Europe in the past,
[01:50.85]	and so we looked into it a little bit further
[01:52.80]	from the point of view of wondering
[01:54.29]	first of all what is killing these bees,
[01:56.39]	and second of all how are these bees acquiring
[01:58.93]	whatever this toxic chemical is."
[02:01.51]	Experts say there are many reasons for the worldwide bee decline,
[02:06.35]	not just insecticides.
[02:08.89]	But in this case, Proffessor Krupke and his colleagues
[02:13.32]	thought insecticides might be the cause.
[02:16.91]	So they studied the insecticides
[02:20.61]	- known as neonicotinoids - that are applied to seeds
[02:24.49]	as they are planted in the ground, rather than sprayed from above.
[02:29.12]	"The two compounds that kept coming up when we tested these dead bees
[02:33.24]	were the pesticides clothianidin and thiamethoxam.
[02:37.32]	Those are insecticides that are applied to corn seeds."
[02:39.60]	About 30 years ago,
[02:41.45]	there were 4 million managed bee colonies throughout the United States.
[02:47.07]	Today, there are fewer than 2 million.
[02:51.36]	Researchers like Professor Krupke blame that in part on the use of insecticides.
[02:57.14]	"Can we get by without neonicotinoids insecticides in these field crops?
[03:01.67]	I believe we can. I believe we have data that show that we can."
[03:04.52]	This December, the European Union plans
[03:08.20]	to ban the use of some insecticides
[03:10.69]	that researchers have linked to bee deaths.
[03:14.33]	No such restrictions are planned in the United States.
[03:18.62]	Illinois beekeeper Terrence Ingram says
[03:22.31]	some of the damage already done is permanent.
[03:26.34]	"We've got many bee keepers around here that have quit,
[03:29.19]	just gone out of business because they can't succeed."
[03:32.03]	But not Terrence Ingram, he says his passion for bees
[03:36.32]	is just as strong as it was when he tended his first colony,
[03:41.34]	more than 60 years ago.
[03:44.03]	"See one bee coming out right here, she is attend coming up."
[03:49.86]	And that's the Agriculture Report from VOA Learning English.
[03:55.25]	I'm Christopher Cruise.

[00:00.10]	From VOA Learning English,
[00:01.75]	this is the Agriculture Report.
[00:05.13]	A decline in the number of honeybees
[00:08.23]	is a growing problem worldwide.
[00:11.26]	The decreasing bee population could contribute
[00:14.91]	to an increase in prices for crops
[00:17.74]	that depend on pollination by honeybees.
[00:21.29]	Researchers continue to study the decline
[00:24.22]	while beekeepers like Terrence Ingram
[00:27.62]	struggle to keep their bee colonies alive.
[00:31.05]	He says he loves being at the center of a swarm of bees.
[00:38.97]	" I love beekeeping. It' s one of God' s greatest miracles."
[00:44.01]	He has raised honeybees since 1954 in managed colonies
[00:49.59]	behind his house in rural Apple River, Illinois.
[00:54.27]	" We had 250 hives at one time.
[00:56.41]	We sold five, six tons of honey a year."
[00:59.97]	But that number is declining.
[01:02.31]	" Now we' re down to about probably four tons."
[01:05.25]	Not because the 73 yearold beekeeper is slowing down,
[01:09.59]	but because there are fewer bees producing honey.
[01:13.83]	He says the decline in his bee population began in 1996.
[01:20.05]	he blames that decline on the use of insecticides
[01:24.38]	and herbicides on the farmland surrounding his property.
[01:29.17]	" Every three weeks that summer,
[01:30.82]	they were spraying with the airplane,
[01:32.81]	and by the end of the year,
[01:34.35]	I didn' t have any of my 250 hives left."
[01:36.49]	This caught the attention of researchers like Christian Krupke,
[01:41.54]	a professor at Purdue University who studies bees and other insects.
[01:47.52]	" There have been similar reports from Europe in the past,
[01:50.85]	and so we looked into it a little bit further
[01:52.80]	from the point of view of wondering
[01:54.29]	first of all what is killing these bees,
[01:56.39]	and second of all how are these bees acquiring
[01:58.93]	whatever this toxic chemical is."
[02:01.51]	Experts say there are many reasons for the worldwide bee decline,
[02:06.35]	not just insecticides.
[02:08.89]	But in this case, Proffessor Krupke and his colleagues
[02:13.32]	thought insecticides might be the cause.
[02:16.91]	So they studied the insecticides
[02:20.61]	known as neonicotinoids that are applied to seeds
[02:24.49]	as they are planted in the ground, rather than sprayed from above.
[02:29.12]	" The two compounds that kept coming up when we tested these dead bees
[02:33.24]	were the pesticides clothianidin and thiamethoxam.
[02:37.32]	Those are insecticides that are applied to corn seeds."
[02:39.60]	About 30 years ago,
[02:41.45]	there were 4 million managed bee colonies throughout the United States.
[02:47.07]	Today, there are fewer than 2 million.
[02:51.36]	Researchers like Professor Krupke blame that in part on the use of insecticides.
[02:57.14]	" Can we get by without neonicotinoids insecticides in these field crops?
[03:01.67]	I believe we can. I believe we have data that show that we can."
[03:04.52]	This December, the European Union plans
[03:08.20]	to ban the use of some insecticides
[03:10.69]	that researchers have linked to bee deaths.
[03:14.33]	No such restrictions are planned in the United States.
[03:18.62]	Illinois beekeeper Terrence Ingram says
[03:22.31]	some of the damage already done is permanent.
[03:26.34]	" We' ve got many bee keepers around here that have quit,
[03:29.19]	just gone out of business because they can' t succeed."
[03:32.03]	But not Terrence Ingram, he says his passion for bees
[03:36.32]	is just as strong as it was when he tended his first colony,
[03:41.34]	more than 60 years ago.
[03:44.03]	" See one bee coming out right here, she is attend coming up."
[03:49.86]	And that' s the Agriculture Report from VOA Learning English.
[03:55.25]	I' m Christopher Cruise.

[00:00.10]	From VOA Learning English,
[00:01.75]	this is the Agriculture Report.
[00:05.13]	A decline in the number of honeybees
[00:08.23]	is a growing problem worldwide.
[00:11.26]	The decreasing bee population could contribute
[00:14.91]	to an increase in prices for crops
[00:17.74]	that depend on pollination by honeybees.
[00:21.29]	Researchers continue to study the decline
[00:24.22]	while beekeepers like Terrence Ingram
[00:27.62]	struggle to keep their bee colonies alive.
[00:31.05]	He says he loves being at the center of a swarm of bees.
[00:38.97]	" I love beekeeping. It' s one of God' s greatest miracles."
[00:44.01]	He has raised honeybees since 1954 in managed colonies
[00:49.59]	behind his house in rural Apple River, Illinois.
[00:54.27]	" We had 250 hives at one time.
[00:56.41]	We sold five, six tons of honey a year."
[00:59.97]	But that number is declining.
[01:02.31]	" Now we' re down to about probably four tons."
[01:05.25]	Not because the 73 yearold beekeeper is slowing down,
[01:09.59]	but because there are fewer bees producing honey.
[01:13.83]	He says the decline in his bee population began in 1996.
[01:20.05]	he blames that decline on the use of insecticides
[01:24.38]	and herbicides on the farmland surrounding his property.
[01:29.17]	" Every three weeks that summer,
[01:30.82]	they were spraying with the airplane,
[01:32.81]	and by the end of the year,
[01:34.35]	I didn' t have any of my 250 hives left."
[01:36.49]	This caught the attention of researchers like Christian Krupke,
[01:41.54]	a professor at Purdue University who studies bees and other insects.
[01:47.52]	" There have been similar reports from Europe in the past,
[01:50.85]	and so we looked into it a little bit further
[01:52.80]	from the point of view of wondering
[01:54.29]	first of all what is killing these bees,
[01:56.39]	and second of all how are these bees acquiring
[01:58.93]	whatever this toxic chemical is."
[02:01.51]	Experts say there are many reasons for the worldwide bee decline,
[02:06.35]	not just insecticides.
[02:08.89]	But in this case, Proffessor Krupke and his colleagues
[02:13.32]	thought insecticides might be the cause.
[02:16.91]	So they studied the insecticides
[02:20.61]	known as neonicotinoids that are applied to seeds
[02:24.49]	as they are planted in the ground, rather than sprayed from above.
[02:29.12]	" The two compounds that kept coming up when we tested these dead bees
[02:33.24]	were the pesticides clothianidin and thiamethoxam.
[02:37.32]	Those are insecticides that are applied to corn seeds."
[02:39.60]	About 30 years ago,
[02:41.45]	there were 4 million managed bee colonies throughout the United States.
[02:47.07]	Today, there are fewer than 2 million.
[02:51.36]	Researchers like Professor Krupke blame that in part on the use of insecticides.
[02:57.14]	" Can we get by without neonicotinoids insecticides in these field crops?
[03:01.67]	I believe we can. I believe we have data that show that we can."
[03:04.52]	This December, the European Union plans
[03:08.20]	to ban the use of some insecticides
[03:10.69]	that researchers have linked to bee deaths.
[03:14.33]	No such restrictions are planned in the United States.
[03:18.62]	Illinois beekeeper Terrence Ingram says
[03:22.31]	some of the damage already done is permanent.
[03:26.34]	" We' ve got many bee keepers around here that have quit,
[03:29.19]	just gone out of business because they can' t succeed."
[03:32.03]	But not Terrence Ingram, he says his passion for bees
[03:36.32]	is just as strong as it was when he tended his first colony,
[03:41.34]	more than 60 years ago.
[03:44.03]	" See one bee coming out right here, she is attend coming up."
[03:49.86]	And that' s the Agriculture Report from VOA Learning English.
[03:55.25]	I' m Christopher Cruise.

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