Beekeepers have always suffered losses of their bees but in the old times those losses were gradual and the beekeeper was always able to discover the cause, usually a bacteria, mite or some other mold and take pertinent action. Not so with colony collapse disorder, (sometimes called colony collapse syndrome or colony collapse disease). With colony collapse disease more domesticated bees are dying faster with no unmistakable reason and because only the queen and a few worker bees are left alive the colony dies.

The disappearing honey bees is still a mystery. As yet there has been no firm substantiation to point to any one cause for their end of life. This has led to the presumption that there is more than one cause to colony collapse disorder (CCD). Reasonable causes are:

Genetically modified crops

An experiment carried out by a beekeeper, John McDonald, seems to suggest that genetically modified crops could be the cause of colony collapse disease. He placed eight domesticated bee colonies in a place where the honey bees would have no proximity with genetically modified crops and an equivalent number of honey bee hives on farms that grew GMO's. At the end of the season in October the results of the honey collecting of both sets of honeybees was examined. The results between the two sets of bee colonies were very unlike.

The 8 non-GMO honey bee colonies produced 150 pounds of honey, per hive, in the over-wintering brood supers. Plus, between them, the 8 colonies produced 200 pounds of extra honey. The farm bees, on the other hand, had produced no extra honey and had not even packed the over-wintering brood supers. These farm honey bees will require feeding in order to outlive the winter.

Pesticides

The pesticide believed to be the main culprit in causing colony collapse disorder is nicotine-based Clothianidin, an insecticide in the neonicotinoid family. In Germany investigators found that 99 percent of expired bees had high levels of Clothianidin in their bodies. As a result the 7 pesticides in the neonicotinoid family have been provisionally forbidden.

In the US imidacloprid seems to be the pesticide causing the most colony collapse disease. For example in North Dakota one third of colonies died after imidacloprid was applied on oil seed rape.

Mobile phones

Is the electromagnetic radiation given off by mobile phobes interfering with the bee's orientation system thus preventing the bees from locating their way back to the hive. Some detective work carried out by Dr Jochen Kuhn shows that honey bees do not like going back to their hives when a mobile phone is positioned near the bee hive. If honeybees are trying to avoid mobile phone radiation then this could give reason for why they are getting lost and incapable of finding their way home.

Foodstuff

Bees normally use natural material like pollen, sap, nectar, or other botanical materials, for making into honey. When beekeepers take away this honey, which the bees would normally ingest over winter, and replace it with High Fructose Corn Syrup a natural raw food is being replaced with a highly processed dead sustenance. HFCS is lacking in the many minerals and vitamins found in honey so the honeybees are forced to eat inferior food which results in their impoverished health and failing immune systems.

So what is the cause of bee colony collapse disorder. Probably a combination of all of the above though GMOs, and the neonicotinoid pesticides, seem to be the main factors which has caused the dramatic increase in bees disappearing.

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