Bees - Colony Collapse Disorder
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Over the last few years there has been a growing concern over the collapsing of bee colonies around the world.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four previously abundant species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United States, researchers reported on Monday in a study confirming that the agriculturally important bees are being affected worldwide. They documented a 96 percent decline in the numbers of the four species, and said their range had shrunk by as much as 87 percent. As with honeybees, a pathogen is partly involved, but the researchers also found evidence the bees are vulnerable to inbreeding caused by habitat loss.
Researchers find alarming decline in bumblebees | Reuters
What a scientist didn't tell the NY Times on honeybee deaths - Oct. 8, 2010
Jerry Bromenshenk, bee investigator By Katherine Eban, contributor October 8, 2010: 1:42 PM ET FORTUNE -- Few ecological disasters have been as confounding as the massive and devastating die-off of the world's honeybees. The phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- in which disoriented honeybees die far from their hives -- has kept scientists, beekeepers, and regulators desperately seeking the cause.