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Show . RESEARCH BEING MADE ON LOSS OF BEES IN UTAH Research on bee loss problems by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Experi-ment Station entomologists, in cooperation co-operation with the U. S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine apiculturists, is helping to lay a sounder and safer basis for the bee industry, as well as for better crop production of crops requiring bees for pollination, Dr. G. E. Knowlton, Utah State Extension entomologist, declared today. Bee poisoning losses in general were less serious during 1946 and 1947 than during 1943 and 1944, Dr. Knowlton indicated. However problems of avoiding adult bee losses still confront the beekeeper, the fruitgrower and the sed grower, all of whom depend mutually on bees, the entomologist pointed out. Dusting and spraying in bloom with any agricultural poisons must be advoided, if beekeepers are to cooperate most fully with agriculture, agri-culture, he warned. . |