Jooos!!!
We used an unbiased metagenomic approach to survey microflora in CCD hives, normal hives, and imported royal jelly. Candidate pathogens were screened for significance of association with CCD by examination of samples collected from several sites over a period of 3 years. One organism, Israeli acute paralysis virus of bees (IAPV), was strongly correlated with CCD.
It’s always the Jews isn’t it.
Seriously though, finding a cause for CCD is a good thing, and this looks like a pretty solid lead. Anyone who even slightly has looked into the science on this is aware that the Cell Phone or Genetically Modified Foods hypothesis were wacky (although they remain remarkably present in the public consciousness) and that a disease was always the most likely culprit. Most likely, the Bees will recover from this without a whole lot of effort on our part, as natural selection will do its job here.
(via Ronald Bailey and Instapundit)
some rumors from the net for you. I heard that it was not the Organic Bee farmers (yea there is such a thing) that were having problems with CCD from the larger commerical ones. The larger commerical ones were the ones push the size of the holes in the combs to be bigger for money honey, which stresses the bees. Don’t know if it is ture, but it is food for though.