The Several Likely Causes Of Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disease

Beekeepers have always suffered losses of their honey bees but in the past those losses were slow-going and the beekeeper was always able to discover the cause, usually a bacteria, mite or some other fungus and take favorable 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 prominent reason and because only the queen and a few workers are left alive the colony dies.

The vanishing is still a mystery. As yet there has been no firm revelation to point to any one cause for their cessation of life. This has led to the inference that there is more than one cause to colony collapse disorder (CCD). Viable 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 syndrome. He placed eight bee colonies in an area where the domesticated bees would have no proximity with genetically modified crops and an equal 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 distinctive.

The eight non-GMO bee colonies produced 150 pounds of honey, per bee hive, in the over-wintering brood supers. Plus, between them, the 8 colonies produced 200 pounds of extra honey. The farm honey bees, on the other hand, had produced no extra honey and had not even filled 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 dead bees had high levels of Clothianidin in their bodies. As a result the seven pesticides in the neonicotinoid family have been provisionally vetoed.

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 used on rapeseed.

Mobile phones

Is the electromagnetic radiation given off by mobile phobes interfering with the bee's navigating system thus preventing the honey bees from determining their way back to the hive. Some investigation carried out by Dr Jochen Kuhn shows that honey bees do not like going back to their hives when a cell phone is located near the bee hive. If honeybees are trying to avoid mobile phone radiation then this could answer why they are getting lost and unable to find their way home.

Sustenance

Bees normally use natural material like pollen, sap, nectar, or other botanical materials, for fabricating into honey. When beekeepers remove 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 foodstuff. High Fructose Corn Syrup is lacking in the many minerals and vitamins found in honey so the bees are forced to eat inferior sustenance which results in their impoverished health and diminished 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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