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Hundreds of flatbed loads of honey bees are trucked into Washington every spring, enabling the production of apples, cherries, pears and berries in the state. The pollinators are estimated to add at least $18 billion in value to crops throughout the U.S., yet the past year has been catastrophic. "We are in the middle of a colony collapse disorder like we haven't seen since the early 1990s," said local beekeeper Dawn Beck, who has a master beekeeper certificate from the University of Montana and...