Saturday, March 19, 2011

Hagen-Dazs helps honeybee research - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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Häagen-Dazs, which is owned by Inc. GIS), has given a total of $500,000 for bee research over two It depends on crop pollination by bees for several of its ice cream The company has fundeda “bee-friendly demonstration garden” at the University of California, Davis. This gardenj will not only feed local but will be used to teach people how to attracty and better feed bees in their own These donations follow distress in the beekeeping industry as many colonie have been destroyed by a poorly understood syndrom e called colonycollapse disorder.
The condition, in whichg worker bees in hives suddenly may be causedby pesticides, changes in climate, disease or Many experts think a combination of factors causes the Häagen-Dazs uses California strawberries, raspberries and almondsw in its ice cream, and has said in the past it could be badly hurt by declines in bee A year ago it said it might have to “re-examine” the flavorzs it sells. The business has also set up a Web site to increase awareness of colony collapse Honeybees are not native to theUnited States, and were imported for agricultural reasons.

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