Great post!

You can read more about Colony Collapse Disorder here.

Nice sift, that's a very interesting phenomenon. I've invited you to my Science collective.

It's more likely pesticides. There are pesticides called neonicotinoids which basically give the pests the insect version of alzheimers, which sounds exactly like what's going on here.

Neonicotinoids have been strictly limited in France since the 1990s, when they were implicated in a mass die-off of the bee population.

While many pesticides are downright lethal to bees, some new studies have pointed to other strange effects found at low doses. For example, low doses of new compounds called neonicotinoids might be interfering with bee minds. Potentially, this prevents them from remembering their colony's location and causes them to get lost and never return.

I read up about it after they talked about it on NPR. They said environmental related stresses , pesticides or genetically modified foods were the main suspects at this point but from what I have found about the cellphone signal research it seems that could be a problem too, it certainly fits the time frame.
It strikes me as a serious problem. There likely wont be any food shortages because as far as I know bees are only used to pollinate certain crops; but it should definitely have some economic impact, hopefully enough for people to put politics aside and take it seriously.

I am about to write a large article on this subject which will include this video, I will post here when I put it online.

boo this video is dead...

Good stuff, I'll look forward to that article.

An article in the LA Times claims that it may be fungus.

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