Sentences with phrase «colony collapse disorder which»

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The pile of dead bees ended up revealing a previously unrecognized suspect in colony collapse disorder — a mysterious condition that for several years has been causing declines in U.S. honeybee populations, which are needed to pollinate many important crops.

Habitat loss, pesticide poisoning, viruses and parasitic mites, any or all of which may be behind the mysterious syndrome called colony collapse disorder, have taken their toll on the domesticated bees, leaving farmers increasingly dependent on native bees.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by May Berenbaum and colleagues finds that bee colony collapse disorder seems to be related to bees» ribosomes breaking down, which keeps them from making the proteins they need to deal with stress and disease.

Wild bees could become more important because of the decline in numbers of honey bees due to colony collapse disorder, which has resulted in the loss of more than 10 million hives in the past decade.

A widespread and poorly understood cause of die - off is called colony collapse disorder (CCD), marked by unusually high bee losses (up to 90 percent per hive) in which worker bees vanish.

A DOSE OF HOPS Scientists have hypothesized that parasites cause the erratic behavior associated with colony collapse disorder, in which bees abandon the queen.

More than 70 % of pollen and honey samples collected from foraging bees in Massachusetts contain at least one neonicotinoid, a class of pesticide that has been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), in which adult bees abandon their hives during winter, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Apart from keeping hives happy, they hope to collect enough data to shed light on colony collapse disorder, which has devastated beehives since 2006, but whose cause remains mysterious.

I received my first package of bees in 2005, so when the Colony Collapse Disorder news hit in 2007, I started getting questions about bees, most of which boiled down to: «What is the thing causing bees to die?»

If this is the case, this will be one more instance of people spreading a devastating disease to vulnerable organisms; the list already potentially includes the chytrid fungus, which is devastating global amphibian populations, and colony collapse disorder seen in honeybee populations, among more clear - cut cases, such as the American chestnut blight.

The epidemic of «Colony Collapse Disorder», which, in the last year, destroyed 50 — 90 % of colonies in affected honey bee operations, also appears to be the result of a contagious pathogen [23].

Recent devastating losses of honey bees due to «Colony Collapse Disorder», which appears to be the result of a virus introduced from Australia [23], has brought much attention to the issue of pollinator health.

Researchers have established that the toxic substances within high - fructose corn syrup have led to «colony collapse disorder», a mysterious disease, which has killed at the very least one - third of the honeybee population in the United States.

About: Marie Celeste is a thematic group exhibition that uses the recent environmental phenomenon of «Colony Collapse Disorder» (CCD) or «Mary Celeste Disorder,» in which bees mysteriously disappear from their hives, as a metaphor for environmental consciousness and an exploration of the ethical sublime in our post-industrial era.

The term colony collapse disorder is a new name given to a phenomenon which has been documented for well over 100 years.

Contributions toward this season's classes will help fund Rodale Institute's Honeybee Conservancy, which is dedicated to researching colony collapse disorder and finding ways to aid the health and well - being of honeybees, so vital to the nation's food supply.

The study does not provide a clear connection to Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, the sudden die - off of bee colonies in many countries, which is being witnessed by beekeepers since 2006.

We've written about colony collapse disorder a number of times, and while a parasitic mite which makes bees more susceptible to disease has been linked to the honey bee die - off, the Natural Resources Defense Council

Last week we reported on a lawsuit filed by the NRDC which seeks to force the EPA to turn over test results for a Bayer CropScience insecticide which may be linked to colony collapse disorder.

FA striking example of our dependence on pollinator services and the damage that can be inflicted on the agricultural economy without them can be seen in the decline of US honeybee populations beginning in late 2006 which became known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

Still, self - pollinating trees could save growers a hefty chunk of change in renting bees - which can be as much as a $ 1 million annual expense for larger growers - and help offset the difficulty in getting bees at all as colony collapse disorder takes its toll.

Colony collapse disorder (CCD), in which colonies inexplicably lose all of their worker bees, has been blamed for the loss of 50 - 90 percent of colonies in beekeeping operations across the U.S.

In fact, another study published earlier this year in PLoS ONE, found that dead bees in Indiana, which had perished from Colony Collapse Disorder, had several different neonicotinoid pesticides in their systems.

At a news conference before the meeting, Councilman Paul Koretz argued that urban beekeeping was especially needed in the face of colony collapse disorder, which has devastated agricultural hives that pollinate avocados, almonds and other crucial crops.