Colony Collapse Disease

Another event more recently was reported in Pennsylvania where Keepers reported a 53% loss of their hives. But what made this event most serious was the loss of 1/3rd of bee hives within the United States as a whole. This event appeared to have no particular rhyme or reason for this cause and no singular circumstance could be pointed to as an exact cause of such mass destruction of one species that is crucial to food production within the United States ("Honey Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder").

In 2006, beekeepers in the United States began reporting unexpectedly high losses of their colonies, as much as 30-90 percent. The phenomenon came to be known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and its causation remains murky, as well as how to treat it. "The main symptom of CCD is very low or no adult honey bees present in the hive but with a live queen and no dead honey bee bodies present. Often there is still honey in the hive, and immature bees (brood) are present. Varroa mites, a virus-transmitting parasite of honey bees, have frequently been found in hives hit by CCD" (Honey Bees Colony and Collapse Disorder (CCD), 2012, USDA). However, this is only one of the speculated causes of CCD.

The colony collapse disorder has been threatening the United States for many years. Reports show excessive numbers of honeybees dying off. According to the Bee Informed Partnership and USDA’s annual survey, during the winter of 2013-2014, the mortality of managed honeybee colonies was 23.2. The previous winter’s report showed a loss of 30.5 percent of the colonies and thus, the winter 2013-2014 results might show some improvement. However, beekeepers persist that the still declining honeybee colonies are becoming too low for colony collapse disorder to be considered a solved issue. Approximately two-thirds of the beekeepers reported losses greater than the acceptable 18.9 percent mortality rate, thus deeming the losses greater than what is economically sustainable. The issue

The article “Hivey Leaguers” discusses problems affecting the bee population in the United States ranging from chemicals and insecticides to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Colony Collapse Disorder occurs when the worker bees disappear from the hives, leaving behind the queen and the nurses to take care of the immature bees. This newly discovered threat to bee populations caused widespread panic in the entomologist community and lead to a race to find the cause, and the relative cure. Though this new disorder was a danger, the real bane of the bees was a much more sinister, and domestic, threat.

Scientists are alarmed and baffled by the decline in bee populations around the United States and other parts of the world. Since 2004 the population keeps decreasing at alarming rates. Bee researches dubbed this new phenomenon Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

Many people say that bees are accountable for one of every three bites of food we eat. In addition to plant pollination (crucial to crop growth), bees also provide people with many wax based products as well. Honeybees are singlehandedly one of the most important organisms in our ecosystem, however their efforts are often ignored. The bees are dying, and their mysterious disappearances are raising far less warning signs than needed. Colony collapse disorder has been an enormous concern for quite a while now, and it is only getting worse. Using multiple scholarly sources, the importance of CCD and bees will be brought to light throughout this paper. An introduction to the definition of colony collapse disorder will be looked at as an

Purpose statement: Persuade my audience that more should be done to reverse the effects of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and other factors that are causing the bee population to decrease.

According to the National Geographic News website, the domestic honey bee population has decreased 50% in as many years (Roach, 2004). Many reasons are blamed for the decrease in honey bee numbers including diseases and pesticides. Scientists have given the decline in honey bee population phenomenon a name, Colony Collapse Disorder. While some experts maintain that Colony Collapse Disorder is a nuisance and not a catastrophe, it is a serious problem affecting domestic honey bees worldwide.

From around the year 2006, many bee farmers in the U.S.A and some parts of Europe started reporting sharp declines in their bee stocks. The reason for this declining numbers was not known and therefore scientists named it colony collapse disorder (CCD). Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a not a very old phenomena and it became popular when large number of bee colonies started disappearing. The disappearing was mysterious since no dead bees were found in or around the beehives after a colony’s number was reported to have gone down or vanished. This prompted a lot of study and investigations to uncover the mystery and to establish possible remedies. Among the many reasons for the causes of the CCD

The article "Disappearing Bees and Reluctant Regulators.", deals with the current struggle of the beekeepers against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) pesticide regulation. The authors believe that the extremely dangerous phenomenon Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is a result of the current EPA regulations. Colony collapse disorder is a recent phenomenon that is for an unknown reason, many the worker bees in a colony disappear from the hive. Therefore, leaving the queen, food supplies, larva, and the hives nurse bees behind to fend for themselves. In the end the bee hives that suffer from colony collapse disorder tend to expire shortly afterwards. This problem of colony collapse disorder has cause problems with the production of many agricultural products however, no staple food source like grain or rice has been effective. It is the agricultural foods that require pollination between flowers, cherries are a perfect example of this. In the end the authors assert that scientists blame the current EPA-approved agricultural insecticides as the major cause of colony collapse disorder. However, cases

Colony Collapse Disorder not only affects honey bees, but they also affects wild bees. Richard Gerber quotes “Many people would be surprised to know that 90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out” (Gerber). With 90 percent of wild bees extinct, this astounding number really makes you wonder if this goes above and beyond the issues researchers are looking into. Is there something else that researchers and scientist may be overlooking for there to be such a diminishing population of wild bees? Gerber says that since 2007, 22 states have reported tens of thousands of honey

Problem: Decreasing Bee population caused by Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) During the 1980s onwards, the population of the bees had decreased at an alarming rate. The cause of the decline was “due to Varroa and tracheal mites: The first Varroa mite infestation was reported in 1987; tracheal mites were first detected in 1984.” [8] These die-offs forced many bee-keepers out of employment. These die-offs during the past were called by various names: “spring dwindle disease, fall dwindle disease, autumn collapse, May disease and disappearing disease.”[3]

ABSTRACT: Honey bee populations have dramatically declined in the last decade. The honey bee, Apis Mellifera L. is an important food source, and an important pollinator for industrial crops and local gardens. The decline, referred to as Colony Collapse Disorder, CCD, has decimated both domesticated managed honey bee populations and wild (feral) populations. Many potential explanations for CCD have been proposed. Experimental evidence exists for both managed and feral honey bees. Reduced genetic variability has been refuted as a cause of CCD in managed honey bee populations, showing instead increased genetic variability when compared to feral populations. There

The other problem is the impact of bee disease in growing health bee population. Honey bee diseases and bees is a serious threat to growing healthy populations of bees. Like the other animals, the application of intensive farming methods, global movements and increase in bee diseases has done a lot to diminish the population of bees. Bees are especially susceptible to the Varroa mite. This minute external parasite that plagues honey bees was discovered in 1904. It attacks by attaching itself on the bees, before sucking their blood. The after effect leaves the bees weaker and this significantly reduces their population. Besides the bees, the other pollinators are also facing many of the challenges the bees are facing. The only factor that makes the bees stand out is the fact that bees are the most important pollinator for most crop species around the world, especially those used by humans and animals.

Honey bees are a critical link in agriculture across the world. Recently, they have been under serious pressure from an unsolved problem: Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). CCD is defined as “the phenomenon that occurs when the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear and leave behind a queen, plenty of food, and a few nurse bees to care for the remaining immature bees and the queen” (Colony Collapse Disorder).