Sentences with phrase «called colony collapse»

Disorder strikes colonies And lately the world has been hit by a new crisis, called colony collapse disorder.

They are currently being ravaged by a mysterious disease called colony collapse disorder.

In the five years since honeybees began vanishing due to a mysterious syndrome called colony collapse disorder, beekeepers worldwide have lost a staggering 45 billion bees each year.

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.

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.

The San Francisco State University researcher wanted to study flower visits by bees, given the effects of climate shifts and the destructive illness called colony collapse disorder.

We need bees, and bees are dying en masse, have been since about 2005, when a phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) was first given a name.

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Colony collapse disorder, or CCD, as the sudden mass honeybee losses were called, has faded in recent years as mysteriously as it began.

Now so - called «Colony Collapse Disorder» or CCD continues to kill bees — who provide some $ 15 - billion worth of economic good via pollination and other efforts.

The award is being given both for her work on the coevolutionary battles between plants and the insects that eat them and her role in clarifying the factors involved in the still - mysterious phenomenon called «colony collapse disorder.»

As previous articles have noted, they are blaming an innovative new class of pesticides called neonicotinoids for both over-winter bee losses and «colony collapse disorder» or CCD.

A survey of U.S. beekeepers, conducted from September 2006 to March 2007 by the Apiary Inspectors of America, found that the bees in nearly one quarter of U.S. bee colonies had simply disappeared as a result of what scientists are calling «colony collapse disorder.»

In 2014, President Obama issued a memorandum calling for an assessment of the state of honey and wild bees across the US, in the face of an increasing number of threats such as colony collapse disorder.

Scientists call the mysterious wasting - away of the the world's bee populations «colony collapse disorder.»