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The Several Probable Causes Of Bee Colony Collapse Disease
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 microbe and take favorable action. Not so with colony collapse disorder, (sometimes called colony collapse syndrome or colony collapse disease). With colony collapse disorder more honey 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 vanishing honey bees is still a mystery. As yet there has been no firm substantiation to point to any one cause for their perishing. This has led to the inference that there is more than one cause to colony collapse disorder (CCD). Conceivable 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 an area where the bees would have no proximity with genetically modified crops and an equivalent number of honey 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 bees was examined. The results between the two sets of bee colonies were very unlike.
The 8 non-GMO 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 filled the over-wintering brood supers. These farm bees will require feeding in order to get by 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 zapped bees had high levels of Clothianidin in their bodies. As a result the seven pesticides in the neonicotinoid family have been provisionally not permitted.
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 in use on rapeseed.
Cell phones
Is the electromagnetic radiation given off by cell phones interfering with the bee's orientation system thus preventing the bees from finding-out 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 located near the hive. If bees are trying to avoid mobile phone radiation then this could make plain why they are getting lost and unable to find their way home.
Foodstuff
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 eat up 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 bees are forced to eat inferior foodstuff which results in their impoverished 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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