Honey bees from Poland are set to conquer Japan after the local colonies were decimated by a strange disease.

Krystyna Kolosowska reports 

Japan is losing some forty percent of its honey bees due to the colony collapse disorder, in which worker bees suddenly disappear. Rafal Sadowski from the Sadecki Bartnik apiary company in southern Poland says they have been approached by representatives of a Japanese firm interested in importing Polish bee queens.

The deal may be finalized next year. Polish bees are quite special, beekeepers here and abroad agree. A long, painstaking process of breeding has equipped them with many valuable features 

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