Scientists at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have issued a report aimed at enhancing the protection of bees stating three commonly used pesticides in the neonicotinoid class of insecticides – clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam – pose an “acute risk” to bee populations and should not be used in crops attractive to bees. The EFSA…
Geoffrey Carr, science editor at The Economist, covers the issue of bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in this video. They look at recent studies showing that pesticides seem to contribute – to what degree is inconclusive – to CCD.
Scientists have sequenced the bee genome and studied a multitude of pathogens from the varroa mite to the Nosema ceranae, to the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IVAP), as well as other environmental stressors such as pesticides to explain bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). CCD is the phenomenon where worker bees in a hive vanish, leading…
PBS Nature aired a special episode on bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the phenomenon where millions of honey bees inexplicably disappeared over the 2006-07 winter, causing their hives to collapse. CCD threatens world food supplies as bees pollinate 80% of all food crops. Watch the full episode of “Silence of the Bees” at the PBS.org…
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is the name for the syndrome in which a honeybee hive’s worker bees inexplicably disappear. Although noted before by beekeepers throughout history, it’s the dramatic increase in colony collapse worldwide that is worrying scientists, and farmers. Farmers rely on bees to pollinate 80% of the world’s food crops. Bee colonies have…
