Massachusetts Honey Bees Health Check

This month brought the release of unsettling news about bees. A recent report stated that 40 percent of the United States honey bee colonies died over a 12-month period. About a week later, the Obama Administration unveiled a five-year strategy to promote the health of honey bees and other essential pollinators like monarch butterflies. A check-in now on the health of the bees in Massachusetts. Hotze Wijnja is an environmental chemist and bee expert from the State Department of Agriculture. Wijnja talks with New England Public Radio's Carrie Healy.