Sentences with phrase «for colony collapse»

Although bees have been getting the spotlight for Colony Collapse Disorder, bats are suffering from «the most precipitous wildlife decline in the past century in North America,» according to biologists.

Trailer for «Nicotine Bees» documentary explaining cause for Colony Collapse Disorder.

Has the smoking gun for Colony Collapse Disorder been found?

The honeybee genome provided a wealth of data for colony collapse disorder detectives to sift through.

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.

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Although you're probably aware that I've switched to maple syrup, coconut nectar and rice malt syrup for my weekly baking, we still use honey on occasion (usually atop porridge or Weetbix) and issues of colony collapse are constantly on my mind.

Especially in Texas, which would collapse into the Earth's crust if it wasn't held up by one enormous fire ant colony and where trees are just glorified bushes, «picnic» is just code for «trying not to kill one another as we gag down tepid, curdled mayonnaise».

Although such «hygienic bees» would eliminate the need for antibiotic applications in hives, Spivak admits that they are unlikely to provide a long - term solution to Colony Collapse Disorder.

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.

Earlier research had found signs that mites, a virus or a fungus, or a combination of these factors, might be responsible for the widespread colony collapse.

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

Then there are the bees: Regardless of whether honeybees become extinct as a species as a result of colony collapse disorder, climate change and other threats, the local extinction of various honeybee populations and the pollination they provide could spell disaster for human agriculture.

«The global reliance on honeybees for pollination is a risky strategy given the threats to the health of managed honeybee populations due to pests and diseases such as Varroa mites and colony collapse disorder.

Researchers named such disappearances «colony collapse disorder,» although the term quickly became a metonym for all the maladies afflicting honeybees.

«Although insecticides were acknowledged as contributing to the demise of bee colonies, in most of the key studies into the causes of Colony Collapse Disorder, scientists emphasized the factors causing the most significant problems for honey bees were Varroa mites and the viruses they transmit to honey bees,» he said.

As colony collapse disorder and other maladies continue to devastate honeybee populations, researchers are turning their attention to alternative pollinators — the thousands of native bee species throughout the country — and are looking for ways to make croplands more attractive to these wild bees.

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Steve: And of course everybody has been hearing for a few years now about colony collapse disorder.

For that matter, no one has yet shown that IAPV can cause colonies to collapse.

One, imidacloprid, is restricted in Europe for its suspected link to bee colony collapse.

By mid-summer, this bee colony collapsed for the second time.

Identifying any Hymenoptera - specific immune pathways or effectors that may exist is also of key importance for understanding the biology of host - pathogen interactions that may be relevant for such challenges as colony collapse disorder [42]--[44].

The honeybee, for example, produces some types of proteins that attract varroa mites, a parasite that scientists believe to be a cause of colony collapse disorder.

An invitational group show to help raise awareness and possibly some money for the Honey Bee and it's Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

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.

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The audio analysis system is said to employ machine learning so as to «get smarter over time,» and all of the data gathered by the devices will be open source and publicly available for study, with the aim of contributing to the global work being done on colony collapse disorder (CCD), pesticide exposure, and bee colony health.

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.»

With angst around colony collapse disorder and the plight of the honeybees causing some to explore the idea of «human bee pollinators» (seriously, many farmers in China do now pollinate fruit trees by hand due to lack of bees), it might be a comforting thought that there are also other pollinators out there who can pick up the slack for the disappearing bees.

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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.

One not - so - small step to squash colony collapse disorder: France has announced that it may ban Syngenta's Cruiser OSR insecticide, one in a class of pesticides increasingly linked to contributing to CCD, for use on rapeseed crops (Reuters).

Check out the Bees on the Brink webpage for more network - wide coverage of honeybees, Colony Collapse Disorder and the fight to save our pollinators.

Liberty - loving humans may not like the idea of mass surveillance, but for the embattled bees, technology that monitors their numbers may help in the epic fight against colony collapse disorder.

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.

For example, the recent declines in honey bee populations related to colony collapse disorder have caused great concern.

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.

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

Meanwhile the subject of colony collapse disorder receives ample media attention — with even Comedy Central's Colbert Report inviting a bee specialist for their 3rd of March episode.

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.

The number of hives lost to Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon of disappearing bees that has raised concerns among farmers and scientists for a decade, was 84,430 in this year's first quarter, down 27 percent from a year earlier.

For more information on Colony Collapse Disorder, check out Vanishing of the Bees (read Ecocentric's review here) and Colony, fantastic films that make this important information accessible to people of all levels of engagement.

(Inside Science)-- Colony collapse disorder has devastated honeybee populations over the past decade and brought a major push from beekeepers and scientists to commercialize a native pollinator for orchards in California and beyond.

These conditions create the nightmare formula for bee colony collapse.

Now, these corporate polluters are waging multi-million-euro campaigns to deny responsibility for bee colony collapse.

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is a textbook example of modern environmental challenges — not because of the potential gravity of pollination declines or an intrinsic fascination we may have for our stingy honey - producing friends — but because it shows ecological stresses become actual disturbances when these start adding up.

With the onset of the widely publicized American «colony collapse disorder», they were predicting that climate change from greenhouse gases would destroy the honeybees (and other bee species) and crop agriculture - meaning a massive starvation for mankind.

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.

Also in response to colony collapse disorder, many people have been moving away from industrial honey for the holiday and choosing organic, local honey that coincides with their values.

If there was any doubt about the importance of bees for their pollination services alone, these many amazing feats should leave no one in doubt that we must do everything in our power to improve bee habitat, reduce pesticide poisonings, and stop the colony collapse disorder to save these useful insects.