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Dave Hackenberg, a beekeeper since 1962, can usually tell what killed his bees just by looking at them. If they're lying on the [blank] in front of a hive, it's probably pesticides, he says. If the bees are [blank] and wingless, it's probably [blank] mites. But last fall, Hackenberg saw something he had never seen before. Thousands of his bee colonies simply [blank] . He was in Florida at the time, pulling the lids off some of his commercial hives. To his [blank] , they were all empty.

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Dave Hackenberg, a beekeeper since 1962, can usually tell what killed his bees just by looking at them. If they're lying on the ground in front of a hive, it's probably pesticides, he says. If the bees are deformed and wingless, it's probably vampire mites. But last fall, Hackenberg saw something he had never seen before. Thousands of his bee colonies simply disappeared . He was in Florida at the time, pulling the lids off some of his commercial hives. To his horror , they were all empty.
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