The Numerous Potential Causes Of Domesticated Bee Colony Collapse Disease

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

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

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 honey bees will require feeding in order to endure 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 expired bees had high levels of Clothianidin in their bodies. As a result the seven pesticides in the neonicotinoid family have been provisionally banned.

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.

Mobile phones

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

Food

Bees normally use natural material like pollen, sap, nectar, or other botanical materials, for modification into honey. When beekeepers remove this honey, which the bees would normally eat into over winter, and replace it with High Fructose Corn Syrup a natural raw sustenance 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 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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