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Beekeepers have always suffered losses of their bees but in the old times those losses were slow-going and the beekeeper was always able to ascertain the cause, usually a bacteria, mite or some other microbe and take admissible action. Not so with colony collapse disorder, (sometimes called colony collapse syndrome or colony collapse disease). With colony collapse syndrome more bees are perishing faster with no prominent reason and because only the queen and a few worker bees are left alive the colony dies.

The vanishing is still a mystery. As yet there has been no firm hard information to point to any one cause for their perishing. This has led to the assumption that there is more than one cause to colony collapse disorder (CCD). Plausible 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 syndrome. He placed eight domesticated bee colonies in an area where the domesticated bees would have no association with genetically modified crops and an equivalent number of domesticated 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 honey bees was examined. The results between the two sets of honey bee colonies were very distinctive.

The 8 non-GMO bee colonies produced 150 pounds of honey, per bee hive, in the over-wintering brood supers. Plus, between them, the eight colonies produced 200 pounds of extra honey. The farm bees, on the other hand, had produced no extra honey and had not even filled the over-wintering brood supers. These farm bees will require feeding in order to come through 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 investigators found that 99 percent of zapped 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 syndrome. For example in North Dakota one third of colonies died after imidacloprid was in use on rapeseed.

Cell phones

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

Sustenance

Honey bees normally use natural material like pollen, sap, nectar, or other botanical materials, for restructuring into honey. When beekeepers remove this honey, which the honey bees would normally consume over winter, and replace it with High Fructose Corn Syrup a natural raw sustenance is being replaced with a highly processed dead foodstuff. HFCS is lacking in the many minerals and vitamins found in honey so the bees are forced to eat inferior sustenance which results in their poor health and worn-out 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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