Posted: 3-14-2008
IFAS' Jamie Ellis helps Good Morning America showcase honeybees
In case you didn't see today's Good Morning America program on ABC, bee-lieve us, you missed a honey of a story.
Okay, enough bad puns. GMA gave IFAS some terrific exposure and produced a great segment on bees, which you can access via the link below.
Weatherman Sam Champion was at the Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, helping IFAS' own Jamie Ellis move nearly 15,000 bees into a new hive. Champion made the live broadcast to help overcome his fear of bees, as part of an ongoing series of segments called "I Dare You," in which GMA stars take on challenges to help them overcome their fears.
With Ellis' help, Champion also used the opportunity to educate viewers about honeybees, their importance to agriculture, and the phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder, which threatens honeybee populations worldwide.
See the text story and video here
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