{"id":140556,"date":"2019-07-07T08:57:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T05:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/department-of-agriculture-suspends-bee-population-research\/"},"modified":"2019-07-07T08:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T05:57:57","slug":"department-of-agriculture-suspends-bee-population-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/department-of-agriculture-suspends-bee-population-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Agriculture suspends bee population research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/feds-bees.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The US Department of Agriculture has angry beekeepers buzzing after suspending data collection <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/18\/several-bee-species-critical-to-pollination-in-trouble-study-finds\/\">on the insects\u2019 decline.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The agency blamed cost cuts, CNN reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>An annual department survey, inaugurated in 2015, gathers data on the number of honeybees per state, including those lost due to symptoms of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/10\/06\/suspected-bee-killing-pesticide-found-in-honey-samples\/\">colony-collapse disorder<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to suspend data collection \u2026 was necessary given available fiscal . . . resources,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension is \u201ctemporary,\u201d said a USDA spokesperson, who did not say when or if it would be resumed<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/07\/07\/department-of-agriculture-suspends-bee-population-research\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The US Department of Agriculture has angry beekeepers buzzing after suspending data collection on the insects\u2019 decline. The agency blamed cost cuts, CNN reported Saturday. An annual department survey, inaugurated in 2015, gathers data on the number of honeybees per state, including those lost due to symptoms of colony-collapse disorder. \u201cThe decision to suspend &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[103333,103334,103335,814],"class_list":["post-140556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world","tag-bees","tag-department-of-agriculture","tag-insects","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}