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Beekeepers have always suffered losses of their honey bees but in the olden times those losses were slow and the beekeeper was always able to ascertain the cause, usually a bacteria, mite or some other germ and take qualified action. Not so with colony collapse disorder, (sometimes called colony collapse syndrome or colony collapse disease). With colony collapse disorder more domesticated bees are dwindling faster with no clear reason and because only the queen and a few workers are left alive the colony dies.

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

Genetically modified crops

An investigation carried out by a beekeeper, John McDonald, seems to suggest that genetically modified crops could be the cause of colony collapse disorder. He placed eight bee colonies in a place where the honey bees would have no interaction with genetically modified crops and an equivalent number of bee hives on farms that grew genetically modified crops. 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 honey bee colonies were very different.

The eight 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 bees will require feeding in order to ride out the winter.

Pesticides

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

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

Cell phones

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

Food

Bees normally use natural material like pollen, sap, nectar, or other botanical materials, for modification into honey. When beekeepers take away this honey, which the honey bees would normally partake of over winter, and replace it with High Fructose Corn Syrup a natural raw sustenance is being replaced with a highly processed dead food. High Fructose Corn Syrup 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 sapped 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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