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By many accounts, the honey bee population on Vancouver Island is down 90 per cent heading into the spring of 2010. After a die-off of 65 per cent in 2007 and a good recovery last year, honey bees are now teetering on the point of a catastrophe. The wipeout is serious because bees play an integral part in crop pollination, and because Vancouver Island is a major exporter of honeybees.

Sources: Nanaimo News Bulletin, 19 February 2010
http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_central/nanaimonewsbulletin/...

http://www.canada.com/Vancouver+Island+beekeepers+devastated+hive+losses...

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Vancouver+Island+beekeepers+warn+...

http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Island+beekeepers+warn+crisis+ce...

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/plight+honeybee/2921627/story....