Sentences with phrase «since colony collapse»

Over the past few years since Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) made its troubling international debut, the buzz over bees has waxed and waned.

Rita Brhel, Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan It's been nine years since Colony Collapse Disorder first made headlines, not only in the beekeeping community but also to the masses with reports speculating the effects of this mysterious, sudden disappearance of millions of honey bees on future supermarket prices.

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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.

Dr. Smith continued, «confusion also exists around the term Colony Collapse Disorder since the media and general public often generalize by applying this term to any larger than normal annual losses.»

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.

Those questions inform research into colony collapse disorder (CCD), a phenomenon that has killed over a third of commercial honeybees in the U.S. and some European countries since 2006.

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.

The planet as a whole has heated up by about 1.3 °F since 1900, but on the peninsula, it has shot up by a whopping 5 ° in just 50 years, forcing massive ice shelves to disintegrate and penguin colonies to collapse.

The journey takes Weidensaul to the coastal communities of Newfoundland, where he examines the devastating impact of the Atlantic cod fishery's collapse on the ecosystem; to Florida, where he charts the virtual extinction of the great wading bird colonies that Peterson and Fisher once documented; to the Mexican tropics of Xilitla, which have become a growing center of ecotourism since Fisher and Peterson's exposition.

Since late 2006, millions of honeybees have succumbed to «colony collapse disorder», a disease that killed 40 percent of all beehives in the US last year.

Colony Collapse Disease has decimated bees across the U.S. since 2006, killing off approximately 30 % of the population each year.

The mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder, a sudden die - off of bee populations that spread across the world since 2006, is slowly being solved.

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.

Colony collapse disorder has claimed more than one - third of honey bees in the United States since it was first identified in 2006.

Since neonicotinoid pesticides work by impacting insect's central nervous systems, researchers have long raised concerns about the role they could play in Colony Collapse Disorder.

While colony collapses have been recorded since the 19th Century, the current crisis has proven much worst than past ones.