Beekeepers Feel the Sting of Climate Change  Bee Health,
Climate, Forests and Woodlands August 16, 2012|Print  Released
August 15, 2012  "Better stay back. They're getting mad!" Jeremy
Jelinek hollers over the angry buzzing of his beehives.
Jelinek, a Michigan beekeeper, has been stung more times than he
can count. On this day, he is shipping his bees to Wisconsin
where they will pollinate late blooming crops. The disruption
has upset the bees, and to calm them, he wafts smoke over the
hives as he loads them on the truck. That helps, but only a
little.  Jelinek owns Jelinek Apiaries, a family business that
provides honey bees to farmers to pollinate crops like cherries,
apples, alfalfa and almonds. A single acre of sweet cherries
requires roughly 140,000 bees.  In the past, farmers could rely
on feral bees to do the job. But the number of bees in the
United States has declined in recent years due to disease and
colony collapse disorder. As a result, apiarists like Jelinek
must transport their bees as far as