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Commercial beekeepers who truck their migratory bee colonies up to 11,000 miles in a year crisscrossing the map. a typical itinerary for a bee could be almonds, apples, plums in the winter, blueberries and cranberries in spring, pumpkins or watermelon in the summer and peppers in the fall. bees help crop more than $15 billion a year. so these little bees are big business. >> ready to rock. we caught up with a nearby onion seed farm where a few hundred are already on sight. what we need to do is check all of the hives and remove the excess honey so the bees don't get crowded and leave the field...

Centrifuge? >> right. >> as it turns out, randy's new conservative approach has its own set of problems. instead of battling unknown enemy, as a specific threat. illegally imported honey which is flooding the market. >> uncovered a scheme to illegally import chinese honey. >> a massive global honey laundering scheme. >> that's right, honey laundering, where honey with countries with trade embargoes is shipped to approved countries and then sent to the united states. and worse, it may contain contamnants. >> with u.s. bee colonies dying you have, that makes the u.s. a bigger importer every year...

By the supreme court, they could have talked about how terrible it was and had some credibility. by the way, almost every poll shows -- this is not media spin -- almost every poll shows that americans really are blaming the republicans for this. it's not spin that a they did what they did. it is a fact. jon: but, again, i guess it comes down to how their actions are reported, and, you know -- >> actually, it comes down to facts. jon: what the people are reading in their morning papers. alan, jim, good to have you on. >> thank you. arthel: growing concerns about bees in this country. you've hea...

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My next question is an obvious one. what the hell's going on? you have no idea? >> we have a lot of different options. >> last year 1/3 of the bee colonies disappeared or died. >> disappeared. >> you mentioned colony collapse disorder. that's what happens when bees vanish. we don't know what causes that. sometimes they die, you open up the hive like the keeper does and there's nothing there. >> i love the story not only because you have the plug of the bumble bee, musical pun bee reference. also, you explain something that a lot of people don't realize. i had no idea this inner dependence in t...