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“Colony Collapse Disorder”
By newsguy | July 14, 2008
“Colony Collapse Disorder Because Disease Doesn’t Seem Applicable Here”
What’s happening to all the bees? A very misunderstood disorder has been claiming the lives of countless bees throughout the US and Canada. Colony Collapse Disorder describes a phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive, in this case European bees abruptly disappear? There have been numerous explanations ranging from global warming to pesticides to even cell phones! But what is the real explanation and is there even reason to worry?
Like earlier stated, the disorder is very misunderstood and misinterpreted subject.
First, there are over 20,000 species of bees in the world along with thousands of other pollinating insects around the world. When you here “CCD” its talking about one type of species that is affected- the European honey bee, the species that happens to pollinate about 30% of global agriculture that we rely on. So worst-case scenario, with the entire species wiped out, we are all faced with about a 30% loss (which is a significant percentage).
Second, the die-offs seem to affect some beekeepers more than others, which suggest that it might have something to do with how beekeepers manage their bees. The number of falling hives is still a small faction compared to the global population of honeybees and there still are a lot of beekeepers that who haven’t experienced CCD in their colonies.
Another thing to realize is that even the original report describes this as something that has been seen before repeatedly in which no conclusion was reached. The researches didn’t like the older names for the syndrome because it inaccurately describes the disorder so they renamed it CCD. Most people think this is something new but in fact its something that has been reported as early as the 1890s. The hives fail when they experience to much stress but stress is also very difficult to measure.
Last and fore most don’t trust what the media tells you. The media is full of misinterpretation and sometimes you have to look for the answer yourself. The original report didn’t even have anything about cell phones in it. Everything is always “allegedly” unless otherwise stated like the Einstein allegations that “if the bees died off then the world would end in four years”. There is no proof and the quote didn’t even appear until 1994 long after Einstein’s death.
by: Harry Cantrell
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