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May Berenbaum, entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and inspiration for the X Files fictional entomologist Bambi Berenbaum, talks about colony collapse disorder and disappearing bees as well as the importance of honeybees in agriculture

Even if neonicotinoids are not directly responsible for colony collapse disorder, they could play a part by making bees more susceptible to the parasitic mite Varroa destructor and the parasitic fungus Nosema apis, both prime suspects, adds Christian Krupke, an entomologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

And May Berenbaum, entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, talks about the latest publication related to colony collapse disorder and ribosome damage in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A big clue about what's behind the disappearing honeybees, also known as colony collapse disorder, or CCD: May Berenbaum's team at the University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign found that bees» ribosomes were torn up.

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.

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) continues to impact bee colonies in the USA in 2010 at levels seemingly equal to, or exceeding that of 2007, when this unusual syndrome first received worldwide press coverage [1], [2].

Over the past six years, she has raised more than $ 5,000 to help fund research aimed at combating colony collapse disorder (CCD) and saving the honey bee.

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.

On competition day, the kids donned miniature lab coats featuring a kid - designed, bee - inspired logo, quietly carried their presentation poster, laptops and robots into the judges» room, and held forth, one at a time, on bees and colony collapse disorder.

On November 5, 2011, Enteles will discuss her «Pollinator» series and its exploration of Colony Collapse Disorder with assistant curator Gabriel de Guzman at 1:30 p.m..

Talented young designer Ada Zanditon, who we championed at Estethica earlier this year, has created a beautiful collection inspired by Colony Collapse Disorder.

If for no other reason than to save face, I would love to claim that I too was victim of the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder, but the thousands of dead little bee faces looking up at me when I opened up the hive suggest that my furry flying buddies met a more mundane, yet equally deadly, fate.

Following dire reports of bee - colony collapses in recent years, at least three new solar sites in Florida and Maryland are trying to provide safe havens for these critical links in the food chain.

That is because bumblebees may not receive as much attention as bees, while they seem to be doing at least equally bad in today's ecologically stressed world, threatened by Colony Collapse Disorder and other factors that result from agricultural intensification and habitat degradation.

The authors show that the virus appears to have arrived in the US with bees imported from Australia, a practice that began at about the same time as colony collapses were noted.

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.

Hackenberg, 58, was first to report Colony Collapse Disorder to bee researchers at Penn State University.

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.