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City Club Missoula – University of Montana scientist, Scott Debnam, shares stories of Rumsfeld phone calls, possible reasons for bee colony collapse

July 22, 2008 /

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Researchers at the University of Montana have trained honeybees to safely locate land mines, but were banned from field-testing the bees’ prowess overseas by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Senior field researcher Scott Debnam, part of UM’s increasingly famous bee project, blew through a long list of fascinating facts about honeybees – and revealed a possible cause for Colony Collapse Disorder just discovered at UM a week ago – during his City Club Missoula http://www.cityclubmissoula.org presentation Monday.

But he stopped the crowd in its tracks when he revealed the Rumsfeld-initiated roadblock.

Bee Alert: http://beealert.blackfoot.net/~beealert/index.php

By BILL SCHWANKE of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2008/07/22/news/local/news05.txt

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UM’s “Bee Whisperer” Tells of Honeybees’ Military Potential

By Alaina Abbott

Full Story: http://www.newwest.net/city/article/ums_bee_whisperer_tells_of_honeybees_military_potential/C8/L8/

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