Colony Collapse Disorder: A Descriptive Study

Colony Collapse Disorder: A Descriptive Study

BACKGROUND Over the last two winters, there have been large-scale, unexplained losses of managed honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies in the United States. In the absence of a known cause, this syndrome was named Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) because the main trait was a rapid loss of adult worker bees. We initiated a descriptive epizootiological study in order to better characterize CCD and...

Colony Collapse Disorder in context

Although most of humanity relies upon foods that do not require animal pollination [1], production of 39 of the world’s 57 most important monoculture crops still benefits from this ecosystem service [2]. Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) are undoubtedly the singlemost valuable animal pollinators to agriculture because they can be easily maintained and transported to pollinator-dependent crops...

colony collapse disorder in honey bees(apis mellifera)

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Colony Collapse Disorder May Affect Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Very recently some surprising and puzzling news appeared in the media: television and newspapers, reporting a phenomenon perhaps akin to a population crash. It sounded like a pandemic in that it occurs over a large area of the world—not an epidemic, an outbreak of a disease that spreads rapidly through a community. The news caught my immediate attention since the affected population particularl...

Pesticides and Their Involvement in Colony Collapse Disorder