All Posts Tagged With: "Colony Collapse Disorder"

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A New Threat to Honeybees

First, honeybees began to mysteriously disappear as a result of Colony Collapse Disorder here in the U.S. Now, Foul Brood has shown up in apiaries owned by South African beekeepers. Nobody knows why these problems are occurring or how to prevent them from decimating bee hives and apiaries.

20Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Where Have All the Honeybees Gone?

It’s a startlingly fast and stealthy killer—dark, invisible and as yet unidentified. A plague of unknown origin is sweeping through honeybee hives and decimating their populations. The bees simply vanish. The lack of knowledge of the underlying cause moves it closer to becoming an extinction-level crisis. It began on the East coast in the form [...]

18Apr2008 | | 21 comments | Continued